dead code
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (compilers) Instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program.
- 2006, William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC:
- Much dead code elimination is actually done on intermediate representations of your code, which may contain unnecessary intermediate calculations […]
- (programming) A portion of source code that will never be executed as part of the running program.
- Many software projects contain much dead code in the form of deprecated functions.
Usage notes[edit]
- Instructions that will never be executed may also be referred to as unreachable.
Translations[edit]
instructions that have no effect on the running of the program
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