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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+# find a list of fns and variables in the code that could be static
+# usually called with something like this:
+#    findstatic.pl `find . -name "*.o"`
+# Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+
+use strict;
+
+# use nm to find the symbols
+my($saved_delim) = $/;
+undef $/;
+my($syms) = `nm -o @ARGV`;
+$/ = $saved_delim;
+
+my(@lines) = split(/\n/s, $syms);
+
+my(%def);
+my(%undef);
+my(%stype);
+
+my(%typemap) = (
+	       "T" => "function",
+	       "C" => "uninitialised variable",
+	       "D" => "initialised variable"
+		);
+
+
+# parse the symbols into defined and undefined 
+for (my($i)=0; $i <= $#{@lines}; $i++) {
+	my($line) = $lines[$i];
+	if ($line =~ /(.*):[a-f0-9]* ([TCD]) (.*)/) {
+		my($fname) = $1;
+		my($symbol) = $3;
+		push(@{$def{$fname}}, $symbol);
+		$stype{$symbol} = $2;
+	}
+	if ($line =~ /(.*):\s* U (.*)/) {
+		my($fname) = $1;
+		my($symbol) = $2;
+		push(@{$undef{$fname}}, $symbol);
+	}
+}
+
+# look for defined symbols that are never referenced outside the place they 
+# are defined
+foreach my $f (keys %def) {
+	print "Checking $f\n";
+	my($found_one) = 0;
+	foreach my $s (@{$def{$f}}) {
+		my($found) = 0;
+		foreach my $f2 (keys %undef) {
+			if ($f2 ne $f) {
+				foreach my $s2 (@{$undef{$f2}}) {
+					if ($s2 eq $s) {
+						$found = 1;
+						$found_one = 1;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if ($found == 0) {
+			my($t) = $typemap{$stype{$s}};
+			print "  '$s' is unique to $f  ($t)\n";
+		}
+	}
+	if ($found_one == 0) {
+		print "  all symbols in '$f' are unused (main program?)\n";
+	}
+}
+