On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 6:21 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > 1. Experimental tag is only needed in this file. Tags at other places can > > be removed. > > I'm not sure that is the case. The generic file is used when preparing the > docs, so the experimental tag needs to go there for the docs, but when > actually using the function in compiled code the "generic" version is > unused. Therefore we need the experimental tag there to trigger a build > warning about using the function if the appropriate ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_APIS > flag is not set.
It is enough to put an experimental tag when declaring a symbol. Here, the generic/ header only contains the doxygen part and there is no common declaration: the tag is needed in the arch specific header. -- David Marchand
