cp functions not called during testsuite execution

Martin von Loewis martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Aug 25 09:52:00 GMT 1998


> 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



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