Re: argmatch: accept perfect matches in documented arglists

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/21/19 12:16 AM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> I still use static inline, because with static only, GCC complains about unused 
> functions.  If you have suggestions on the gnulib recommended way of dealing 
> with this, I'll adjust the code.

I'm not quite following what you're trying to do there (that's an 
enormous macro -- can't you do whatever you're doing without macros? 
:-). However, generally speaking static functions in .h files are a bad 
idea for C code, because a static function defined in a .h file cannot 
be called directly from an extern inline function defined in user code.

To prevent GCC from complaining about the unused functions, you can use 
a pragma; this should suffice if the static functions are not intended 
to be called directly from user code. Or you can make the functions 
extern inline instead of static inline; Gnulib has a bunch of *INLINE* 
macros for this.