henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/30/88)
In article <19730@cornell.UUCP> blandy@cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) writes: >An alternative to consider: it's a simple task for a compiler to >recognize that the condition for an if ( ) statement is a constant, >use this knowledge in guessing which statements are unreachable, and >drop unreachable code... This does not work for declarations, unfortunately. -- MSDOS is not dead, it just | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology smells that way. | uunet!mnetor!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu