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Suppress warnings on dead inherent methods when allowing dead types #149142

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#[allow(dead_code)]
struct Foo;

impl Foo {
    fn foo(&self) {}
}

Current output

warning: method `foo` is never used
 --> src/lib.rs:5:8
  |
4 | impl Foo {
  | -------- method in this implementation
5 |     fn foo(&self) {}
  |        ^^^
  |
  = note: `#[warn(dead_code)]` (part of `#[warn(unused)]`) on by default

Desired output

No warning

Rationale and extra context

Allowing on the impl block can suppress warning both on methods and types.

struct Foo;

#[allow(dead_code)]
impl Foo {
    fn foo(&self) {}
}

But I think it's more intuitive to just allow on types.

Futhermore, considering that when we have dead types, no methods could be used. So maybe we can also suppress warnings for items in the impl block when there has been warnings for the type. 🤔

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Build using the Nightly version: 1.93.0-nightly

(2025-11-19 07bdbaedc63094281483)

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