kgupta11oct

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• Aug 4th, 2011

 

Dead code is a computer programming term for code in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation.[1][2] The execution of dead code wastes computation time as its results are never used.


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surendrap

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• Nov 21st, 2011

 

dead code is such a collection of lines of code or code which executes but it its result does not have any significance or affect on output.

mfsi_chinmayb

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• Feb 20th, 2012

 

Hi
Dead code (a.k.a Unreachable code),as the name suggests is the portion of the code which is never executed.
Point out the word NEVER , as the code above that made the break before that and the execution of that never come.
Ex:
int function(a,b)
{
int z;
return a+b;
z=a*b; //It will never be executed
}

The above is the example for a Statement . There might a big function which is never executed.In larger programs 5-10% of dead code can be found.

Note : If a program is smaller in size error code can be checked manually.But for larger program we have automated tools like: TrueCoverage etc