dead code identification

[Matthew Woehlke]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Woehlke
> <PLEASE.DONT.QUOTE.MY.EMAIL.ADDRESS@I.GET.ENOUGH.SPAM> wrote:
> 
>>  I guess someone should point out that some commercial compilers (Sun's
>>  comes to mind) issue warnings for unreachable code. IMO this would make
>>  a nice improvement to gcc.
> 
> See -Wunreachable-code in the documentation.  Unreachable code and
> dead code are different things

They are? If so, (not counting dead variables) I guess I don't know the 
difference. Neither, it seems, does wikipedia [1]. Maybe you should fix 
that? :-)

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable_code

-- 
Matthew
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