On 03/11/15 15:37, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 06:49:20AM -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 11/03/2015 04:31 AM, tbsaunde+...@tbsaunde.org wrote:
>>> From: Trevor Saunders <tbsaunde+...@tbsaunde.org>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> $subject, nothing refers to this header so we might as well remove it.
>>>
>>> tested I can still build on x86_64-linux-gnu, not that I would expect 
>>> anything
>>> else or that it is particularly relevent, ok?
>>>
>>> Trev
>>>
>>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>>>
>>> 2015-11-03  Trevor Saunders  <tbsaunde+...@tbsaunde.org>
>>>
>>>     * config/arm/coff.h: Remove.
>> More generally, if we have a header file that's not used, I'd consider
>> removing it to be obvious-enough to commit without approval.
>>
>> We could/should probably do the same with unused functions, with the only
>> wrinkle being things that are useful for debugging but which are otherwise
>> unused should be kept around.
> 
> I'd agree removing things that are dead is obvious, but sometimes things
> are so convoluted its hard to be sure they are in fact dead, and then
> its nice to have some confirmation you didn't miss something :)
> 

Caution is to be commended.  In this sort of case, however, you can
probably claim obviousness but then self-impose a pre-commit timeout: I
think this is obvious but I'll wait 24 hours before committing.

R.

> Trev
> 
>>
>> jeff
>>

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