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From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unreachable code diagnostic
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:47:10 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:43:56PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:11:53PM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> > I'm not very sure what are the cases in wich Matthew is really
> > interested but I suppose that, even after preprocessing and
> > elimination of if (0) {...}, a return statement in the middle
> > of a compound statement is very often unintentional. 
> > That should be easy to check.
> 
> By "middle of a compound statement", you mean an unconditional return
> followed by more code?  Yes, that seems like something reasonable to
> statically check.
> 
> - Josh Triplett

Yes, it's what I meant.

Luc