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Dead Code Detection
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A statement that can never be executed or whose execution is irrelevant is considered dead.
The most obvious form of dead code is an unreachable statement, which has no control flow path from the beginning of the program to the statement. Code can be unreachable either statically, meaning there is no path to the statement, or dynamically, meaning there are no paths that can be executable.
The second form of dead code is the dead definition, which is a definition of a data that is either redefined before it is referenced, or is never referenced. One restriction on this definition is that the execution of the assignment statement does not alter the value of any other data item other than the one being defined (that is, no side-effects).
