dead code — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. Instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   Much dead code elimination is actually done on intermediate representations of your code, which may contain unnecessary intermediate calculations[…]

2. A portion of source code that will never be executed as part of the running program.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar

   Synonyme

   unreachable code

   Verwandte Wörter

   no-op

   Beispiele

   Many software projects contain much dead code in the form of deprecated functions.

   If the test data is exhaustive you can even locate dead code: program code that is never executed.