Re: cp functions not called during testsuite execution

[Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> That boils down to a recipe to remove error handling code from the compiler.
> Who would pledge that he uses the 'functionality' to detect some stupid
> typo in his development code?

Are you saying that there is no way to remove presumably dead code
from gcc?

I didn't propose to mark all code not executed in the testsuite, only
lines where nobody can figure out why they ever would have been used.

> What do you do about error returns from system calls that might not
> happen for an entire generation of computers?

Hmm. I'm mainly talking about the C++ front end. The number of system
calls there is rather low.

Regards,
Martin