OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code

Posted Jan 21, 2016 20:01 UTC (Thu) by arielb1@mail.tau.ac.il (guest, #94131)
In reply to: OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code by mjthayer
Parent article: OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code

Dead code elimination is actually one of the most important optimizations. Compilers can often optimize out all loads of a local variable, and then removing the now-dead stores allows for necessary code reorganization.