Just a small thing, but still: Several cleanups recently have removed commented-out code. That is good. But the commit comments say that "dead code" was removed. That is misleading.
Dead code is (according to Wikipedia) "code in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation". Personally I would have said that dead code is code that is present in an executable (program or shared library) but is never executed, i.e. a synonym to unreachable code. Anyway, dead (unreachable) code is something else than commented-out code. I am sure we have lots of actual dead/unreachable code too, and finding and removing it reduces the size of our binaries. I suspect we have significant amounts of code that would be reachable under some complicated condition that actually never is true (any more). Figuring out that can be hard of course. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
