From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:21:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove various dead assignments and dead increments found by the clang static analyzer
Message-ID: <874oqokdc2.fsf@master.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909262038470.4997@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> And the compiler (at least gcc) is indeed smart enough to realize that 
> nothing uses the result from the last statement, and does optimize away 
> the code associated to it already.  So this patch is unlikely to change 
> anything to the compiled result.

Right, and gcc can do many other amazing things.  But still it is used a
variable that is never accessed, removing it can make the code slightly
more readable.

Cheers,
Giuseppe