RFR: 8377798: Hotspot build on macOS aarch64 with unused-functions warning reports some unused functions

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:59:26 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We currently set a warning for unused functions for gcc and clang, but later disable it for clang in the libjvm build.
> See
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/make/hotspot/lib/CompileJvm.gmk#L105
> 
> I checked why it might be disabled for clang and there are a few functions/methods reported as unused, probably we can remove some or all of those ?
> 
> macOS aarch64 product build shows:
> 
> 
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/checkpoint/jfrCheckpointManager.cpp:179:20: warning: unused function 'is_thread_local' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline bool is_thread_local(ConstBufferPtr buffer) {
>                    ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/recorder/checkpoint/jfrCheckpointManager.cpp:184:20: warning: unused function 'is_virtual_thread_local' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline bool is_virtual_thread_local(ConstBufferPtr buffer) {
>                    ^
> 2 warnings generated.
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/support/jfrDeprecationManager.cpp:197:20: warning: unused function 'jfr_is_started_on_command_line' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline bool jfr_is_started_on_command_line() {
>                    ^
> 1 warning generated.
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:61:20: warning: unused function 'sp_in_stack' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline bool sp_in_stack(const JfrSampleRequest& request, JavaThread* jt) {
>                    ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:69:20: warning: unused function 'update_interpreter_frame_sender_pc' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline void update_interpreter_frame_sender_pc(JfrSampleRequest& request, intptr_t* fp) {
>                    ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:79:23: warning: unused function 'interpreter_frame_return_address' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline address interpreter_frame_return_address(const JfrSampleRequest& request) {
>                       ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:93:20: warning: unused function 'update_frame_sender_sp' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline void update_frame_sender_sp(JfrSampleRequest& request, intptr_t* fp) {
>                    ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:101:20: warning: unused function 'update_sp' [-Wunused-function]
> static inline void update_sp(JfrSampleRequest& request, int frame_size) {
>                    ^
> /myjdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/jfr/periodic/sampling/jfrSampleRequest.cpp:106:20: wa...

Thanks for the review !

David -  can we address the  'suspicious' perfMemory issue in a separate issue?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29695#issuecomment-3928138918