Re: CodeWarrior Dead Code Optimizations

[Mark Wilden]

"Scott L. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Also remember that dialog form resources can have a helpID which is a
> string resource ID.  So the hypothetical "String Resource Dependency
> Checker" tool would need to handle this case too.  But of course it
> would then need to figure out which dialog resources are unreferenced by
> code. 

Hardly along the lines of the 'halting problem', surely.

> Oops, but a dialog's helpID can be modified by code at runtime.
> And so on, and so on...

For the minority of developers who do things with resources other than
simply passing their identifiers to OS functions, you're quite right.

For the majority, however...


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