-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:20:19AM -0500, John Love-Jensen wrote: > One of my project's general on-going tasks is to eliminate dead code. > Sort of following the Extreme Programming principle. If you're doing XP then you also have a test suite that covers all the code that you *actually* need, because you wrote the tests first to reflect the requirements, and then edited the code until it passed. Compile your codebase with -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage, and then run the test suite. Use gcov to find code that never gets around to getting run; either it purports to implement correct behaviour under strange circumstances (fix the bug in your test suite - it is incomplete - write a test!), or someone was trying to be too cleverer and added untested (and un-run!) code: eliminate it once you agree it is indeed fallow. (I speak of wishful thinking about my own code base, not out of positive experience with this technique.) - -- It is manipulative to not be manipulative. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Please fetch my new key 804177F8 from hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/ iD8DBQFEW+X5wyMv24BBd/gRAutsAJ9f6WbmIx+/hEmmc95283/bw77ZCgCfQ14T BKc5ti8qSNr4Qg9eM6e9fi8= =QqGv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
