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There's some debugging code in mailmap.c which is only compiled if you
manually tweak the source to set DEBUG_MAILMAP. When it's not set, the
fallback noop uses static inline functions; we couldn't use macros here
because one of the functions is variadic (and variadic macros were
forbidden back then, but aren't now). As a result, this triggers
a -Wunused-parameter warning.
We have a few options here:
1. Leave it be. Just mark it as UNUSED, or switch to a variadic macro.
2. Assume the debugging code is useful, compile it always, and trigger
it with a run-time flag (e.g., with a trace key). This is pretty
easy to do, and carries a pretty small runtime cost.
3. Assume the debugging is not very useful, and just rip it out. This
matches what we did with a similar case in 69c5f17f11 (attr: drop
DEBUG_ATTR code, 2022-10-06).
The debugging flag has been mentioned only three times on the list.
Once, when it was added in 2009:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1234102794.git.marius@trolltech.com/
In 2013, when somebody fixed some compilation errors in the conditional
code (presumably because they used it while making other changes):
https://lore.kernel.org/git/1373871253-96480-1-git-send-email-sunshine@sunshineco.com/
And finally it seemed to have been useful to somebody in 2020:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/87eejswql6.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
So it's not totally without value. On the other hand, it's not likely to
be useful to non-developers (and certainly isn't if you have to
recompile). And using a debugger or adding your own inspection code is
likely to be as useful. So I've just dropped the code entirely here.
Note that we do still have to mark a few parameters unused in callback
functions which are passed to string_list_clear_func(). Those get an
extra pointer with the string being cleared, which we previously fed to
the debugging code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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