[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 11/13] swr/rast: fixes for 32-bit builds

[Emil Velikov]

On 1 August 2017 at 17:36, Rowley, Timothy O <timothy.o.rowley at intel.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 3:56 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Tim,
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>> Some of the inline functions seem unused.
>> Very quick search showed the following:
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>> InterpolateComponent
>> _simd128_abs_ps
>> _simd_abs_ps
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> The intent of simdlib is a general purpose vector library, so some functions/methods are in there for completeness sake so that when a developer is using it in the future they’re not surprised by obvious holes in the api.
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>> Might be worth cleaning things up, first?
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> I’ve been experimenting with —print-gc-sections to see if I can prune used code from the tree, but real unused functions seem to get lost in the inline functions/methods defined in headers which the linker is reaping as expected.
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Indeed --print-gc-sections does not work with inlines. One needs to
drop the inline keyword - be that sed out, or define it to a noop.
Just an idea for a rainy day.

-Emil