Testing removal of ifdef or configure checks

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#ifdef removal is risky

Large-scale removal of "unused" ifdef or the configure checks that produce #defines is an important, but risky task.

It is difficult (and time consuming) to prove that the code is unused and that there is no change to the compiled output.

A script to help

File:Gcc-E.py.txt is a Python script that wraps gcc -E (to get the CPP output) to attempt to solve this dilemma, so as to provide a result that can be reasoned with via tools like dirdiff

Getting the results

git checkout origin/master
git clean -x -f -d
CC="gcc -E" ./configure.developer && make -j
mv bin /tmp/master-bin

git checkout newbranch
git clean -x -f -d
CC="gcc -E" ./configure.developer && make -j

Reading the results

dirdiff /tmp/master-bin bin

or

diff -ur --ignore-matching-lines="^#" /tmp/master-bin/ bin> /tmp/diff