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SubjectRe: finding unused header files
On 06/22/2012 11:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> inspired by that last post that located an unused header file under
> arch/h8300, i ran my "find_unused_headers.sh" script on the same
> sub-directory to see what would show up.
>
> the script is stupidly conservative and didn't identify that shm.h
> header since *somewhere* in the entire kernel source tree, someone was
> including a file called "shm.h" -- not even for the same architecture.
> like i said, stupidly conservative.
>
> but it did find this:
>
> $ ../s/find_unused_headers.sh arch/h8300
> ===== target_time.h =====
> ./arch/h8300/include/asm/target_time.h
> $
>
> and i see nothing anywhere in the entire tree that includes a
> target_time.h header under any circumstances.
>
> i should probably do another run of these scripts some day, just to
> see what turns up.
>
> rday
>

See also:
http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/

It's quite awkward (relies on a llvm/clang source tree for example)
and currently requires human interpretation.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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