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Add a lint pass that warns about unknown annotations. #6884
Description
The compiler does not warn about annotations it does not recognize. I recently noticed some code annotated with several instances of #[incline]. Those annotations had been sitting there unnoticed for over a year. It would be nice if the compiler would emit a warning.
As discussed on IRC, one way this might be implemented would be marking annotations as 'used' when they are used, and then do a pass very late in compilation that checks for unused annotations. This would free the lint pass from having a list of valid annotations and their semantics.
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catamorphism commentedon Jun 1, 2013
+1
bblum commentedon Jul 29, 2013
Related #2976. Nominating feature-complete.
catamorphism commentedon Aug 29, 2013
Related to #7318
catamorphism commentedon Aug 29, 2013
Just a bug, more of a developer issue
pnkfelix commentedon Aug 29, 2013
(I think we agreed informally that such a lint pass might be useful to some, but that it would be turned off (
allow) by default; I think this aligns with the discussion on #7318.)klutzy commentedon Dec 7, 2013
This is fixed by #10316.
alexcrichton commentedon Dec 7, 2013
hurray!
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