RE: [GD-General] remove unused functions

[Laurent G. <lg...@pa...>]

If you use MSVC 7, had you try to set Property|C/C++|Optimization|Global
Optimizations to Yes ? Look at LTCG in the documentation... Even if it's
much more an optimization option, it's actually remove all unused function
(even in our case)...

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...]De la part de
> Corrinne Yu
> Envoye : lundi 19 mai 2003 20:58
> A : gam...@li...
> Objet : [GD-General] remove unused functions
>
>
> The game engine and game code base has gotten very very big. And it is
> about time to clean things up and improve its structure and
> documentation.
>
> One thing I would like to do to it is to start removing un-used
> functions. I tried to use MSDev to remove un-referenced functions as a
> start but didn't find any. It turns out quite a few of the "un-used"
> functions are "referenced" (and thus can't be that easily
> automatically
> determined) but I know from how the game and engine code is
> supposed to
> run that they won't ever be called.
>
> They are not exactly unreachable code either, so doing the unreachable
> code thing also doesn't work.
>
> I truly "dread" :D the idea to have to manually step through all the
> code and manually cull out every single un-used function by
> hand (it is
> a lot of code to wade through!). I wonder what tools exist inside of
> MSDev (or simple easy to use small external tools) that can help me in
> my highly un fun task of cleaning up my code base, specifically in the
> task of removing "un-used" functions.
>
> Thank you for your experience in this task, and your suggestions.
>
>
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