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How to Find Unreachable Functions With Deadcode

TL;DR Functions that are part of your project’s source code but can never be reached in any execution are called “dead code”

By @Go [ 6 Min read ]

Sometimes, after putting in all that effort, we would discover to our frustration that one of the callers was never actually reached in any execution, so it could safely have been deleted. If we had known this beforehand our refactoring task would have been easier.

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