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 1.12  28-Sep-2024  rillig lint: handle __attribute__((__unused__)) for functions and variables

Previously, lint ignored the '__unused' marker, requiring its own /*
ARGSUSED */ marker instead.

Previously, attributes were interpreted as soon as the closing
parenthesis was parsed. For a function definition such as '__unused
static void f(void) {}', this was too early, as the attribute was not
connected to the function, as the function was not parsed yet.

Now, the 'unused' attribute is passed around by the parser, until it is
merged into the declarator where it belongs. Due to an inaccuracy in
the grammar, the 'used' attribute has to be passed through a
parameter_list, even though a parameter list is not related to
attributes. Still, it's better than before.
 1.11  27-Sep-2024  rillig tests/lint: test unused parameters and local variables
 1.10  26-Sep-2024  rillig tests/lint: test more cases of unused parameters and local variables
 1.9  12-Sep-2023  rillig lint: mark unreachable function call arguments as used as well

Previously, in a '?:' expression with a constant condition, the branch
that is not taken was skipped but any identifiers in there were intended
to be marked as used. In function call expressions, this only worked
for the last argument, as the PUSH operator is not a binary operator
(see ops.def). Cover this case as well.
 1.8  12-Sep-2023  rillig lint: mark symbols that are only used in untaken '?:' branch as used
 1.7  12-Sep-2023  rillig tests/lint: show that '?:' skips untaken branches early

This is probably done to avoid wrong warnings from branches that are
only taken on other platforms, but it also generates a wrong 'unused'
warning.
 1.6  09-Jul-2023  rillig lint: clean up wording in diagnostics

Use the term 'parameter' as defined in C99 3.15.
 1.5  07-Jul-2023  rillig lint: warn about function definitions without header declaration

The existing warning was only issued for function declarations, not for
function definitions.

The interesting change in the tests is in msg_351.c. Many other tests
use non-static functions due to their syntactic brevity. In these
tests, the warning is disabled individually, to allow new functions to
be added without generating warning 351.
 1.4  16-Jun-2022  rillig tests/lint: make expectation lines in the tests more detailed

This commit migrates msg_100 until msg_199.
 1.3  09-Apr-2021  rillig lint: quote placeholders in messages for unused variables
 1.2  30-Jan-2021  rillig lint: remove message 189, add tests for a few other messages

Message 189 would have applied to traditional C and was supposed to
detect assignments between struct and union types. The corresponding
check had never been implemented though.

Traditional C has been superseded for 30 years now, therefore there is no
point in adding this check retroactively.
 1.1  02-Jan-2021  rillig lint: add a test for each message produced by lint1

Having a test for each message ensures that upcoming refactorings don't
break the basic functionality. Adding the tests will also discover
previously unknown bugs in lint.

The tests ensure that every lint message can actually be triggered, and
they demonstrate how to do so. Having a separate file for each test
leaves enough space for documenting historical anecdotes, rationale or
edge cases, keeping them away from the source code.

The interesting details of this commit are in Makefile and
t_integration.sh. All other files are just auto-generated.

When running the tests as part of ATF, they are packed together as a
single test case. Conceptually, it would have been better to have each
test as a separate test case, but ATF quickly becomes very slow as soon
as a test program defines too many test cases, and 50 is already too
many. The time complexity is O(n^2), not O(n) as one would expect.
It's the same problem as in tests/usr.bin/make, which has over 300 test
cases as well.

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