https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106965
--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Boaz from comment #4) > which is a good practice as far as I know. Not really, because it's dead code and typically optimized away anyway. It's better to use static analysis tools, or dynamic analysis like ASan.