From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: checking static vs extern symbols Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:23:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83zknrq5xa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4DA295DB.20709@cs.ucla.edu> <87hba4tnx8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4DA3AC70.6070609@cs.ucla.edu> <4DA788C9.7010102@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302855825 18540 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2011 08:23:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 10:23:41 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAeJZ-0007NG-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:23:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55206 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAeJZ-0006SQ-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAeJT-0006Rn-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAeJS-0002mt-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:62643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAeJR-0002me-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJO00500PFTM500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:23:32 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.31.148]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJO005WBPZ7FM40@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:23:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DA788C9.7010102@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138495 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:52:41 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > > I have an approximately 100-line shell script that reports > C variables and functions that are exported but shouldn't be. > It finds every extern symbol that is not used by any > other module, and isn't one of the exceptional cases (the > biggest exception being DEFUNs). I plan to make this shell > script run as part of a new 'make maintainer-check' action. > > I could call this shell script 'src/extern-check', or could > give it other names (in other directories) if people would prefer I think it should go somewhere under admin/. That's where we put stuff that is useful only for maintainers, such as admin.el.