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dead code en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program.
    • Much dead code elimination is actually done on intermediate representations of your code, which may contain unnecessary intermediate calculations[…] 2006, William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC:
  2. (uncountable) 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.
    • If the test data is exhaustive you can even locate dead code: program code that is never executed. 2003, Diomidis Spinellis, Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 372:

Relateds

no-op

Synonyms

unreachable code

Translations (5)

fi kuollut koodi (instructions that have no effect on the running of the program) · tr ölü kod (instructions that have no effect on the running of the program) · it codice morto (instructions that have no effect on the running of the program) · de toter Kode (instructions that have no effect on the running of the program) · de toter Code (instructions that have no effect on the running of the program)