[LLVMdev] Deleting unused C++ code

[Øyvind Harboe]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Reid Kleckner <reid.kleckner at gmail.com> wrote:
> An easier way would be to use a coverage tool like gcov to see what's
> actually *used* when the app is run normally.  Then you can ask the
> question, what percentage of all lines of code are dead?

We need something that can do this using static analysis... Otherwise
we can just use Eclipse and search for reference as a first approximation
and try a rebuild. Tedious process. gcov is out of question we'd have
to execute the entire program, which is a non-starter.

That said, it would be interesting to add gcov to the testsuite to get a measure
of how many percent of the application we're exercising....

> A static analysis will not be able to see through things like virtual
> method calls.

Not even in theory?

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