Why do I get CA1811 when I call a private method from a public method in C++/CLI?
- by brickner
I've recently upgraded my project from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010.
By enabling Code Analysis and building on Release, I'm getting warning CA1811: Avoid uncalled private code.
I've managed to reduce the code to this:
.h file:
public ref class Foo
{
public:
virtual System::String^ ToString() override;
private:
static System::String^ Bar();
};
.cpp file:
String^ Foo::ToString()
{
return Bar();
}
String^ Foo::Bar()
{
return "abc";
}
The warning I get:
CA1811 :
Microsoft.Performance :
'Foo::Bar(void)' appears to have no
upstream public or protected
callers.
It doesn't matter if Bar() is static or not.
I've tried to reproduce it in C# but I can't. I can only reproduce it in C++/CLI.
Why do I get this warning?
Is this a Visual Studio 2010 bug?
