On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 12:35:03AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:54:15 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > cppcheck-2.19.1 complains that the unusedFunction suppression in igmp.c
> > doesn't match.  That seems like a cppcheck bug, because the function
> > clearly *is* unused.  The function exists because otherwise the compiler
> > fails because "ISO C forbids an empty translation unit".
> > 
> > mld.c contains an identical unused definition for the same reason, but
> > without the suppression.  It doesn't seem to have caused unusedFunction
> > warnings,  so maybe cppcheck counts the non-empty translation unit
> > requirement as a "use" of the function?
> 
> No idea why, but with this patch and cppcheck 2.16.0 I'm getting:
> 
> igmp.c:16:0: style: The function 'unused' is never used. [unusedFunction]
> __attribute__((__unused__)) static void unused(void) { }
> ^
> 
> ...I guess we needed one and exactly one suppression between mld.c and
> igmp.c, even though it's two different translation units.

Huh.  Weird.

> Anyway, whatever, it's too old to make sense. Upgraded to 2.19.0, no
> error there, I guess it should be good enough for everybody.

Works for me.

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