On 05/02/18 23:01, Jon Perryman wrote:
I agree. The C compiler is good about discarding useless code but
never bothers to issue a warning.
I am not sure which compiler you are calling "*the* C compiler",
but Clang carries out extensive static analysis including
warning about unreachable code.
The HLASM assembler does not, however, carry out any static analysis
and does not warn about unreachable code.
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Martin
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