images\coverage_sml.gifdead code

Lines that are impossible to reach by testing, even though the compiler has generated code for them. For example, line numbers, functions that have a body but are never called or referenced, or:

if (false) {

...

/* dead code */

}

 

By default, dead lines of code are colored black in the annotated source.

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