Functions that should be static

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Christian Costa wrote:
[...]
> If you have a class A (with methods implemented in file 1) that inherits from
> another class B (methods in file B).
> The class A may overrides some methods of B which may become unused if B is
> never instanciated and B methods not reused.
> They will be tracked by your script then.
> We could make these functions static or worst remove then but from object
> programming pov is not good.

I don't see any reason not to make the methods of B static, whether 
class A exists or not. Note that 'static' does not prevent a function 
from being called from another object file if you give a pointer to them 
to that other file (as you do with the virtual table).

Also the compiler will not complain that these functions are unused 
because they are indeed used: you take their address.


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