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From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove various dead assignments and dead increments found by the clang static analyzer
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:21:17 +0200
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> And the compiler (at least gcc) is indeed smart enough to realize that 
> nothing uses the result from the last statement, and does optimize away 
> the code associated to it already.  So this patch is unlikely to change 
> anything to the compiled result.

Right, and gcc can do many other amazing things.  But still it is used a
variable that is never accessed, removing it can make the code slightly
more readable.

Cheers,
Giuseppe