Compiling under CYGWIN prints these warning messages:
In file included from ../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/prim/prim.c:22,
from ../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/static.c:37,
from ../cpython/Objects/obmalloc.c:23:
../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/prim/unix/prim.c:91:12: warning: ‘mi_prim_access’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
91 | static int mi_prim_access(const char *fpath, int mode) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/prim/unix/prim.c:88:12: warning: ‘mi_prim_close’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
88 | static int mi_prim_close(int fd) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/prim/unix/prim.c:85:16: warning: ‘mi_prim_read’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
85 | static ssize_t mi_prim_read(int fd, void* buf, size_t bufsize) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
../cpython/Objects/mimalloc/prim/unix/prim.c:82:12: warning: ‘mi_prim_open’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
82 | static int mi_prim_open(const char* fpath, int open_flags) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
Looking into the code of Objects/mimalloc/prim/unix/prim.c, there is already a conditional block to avoid the generation of such warnings.
The solution for this issue is to simply add CYGWIN to that list of platforms.
So, I'm posting this issue according to the suggestion received into #146572 for tracking this change.
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Remove unused function warnings during mimalloc build on CYGWIN