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While the result of a dead computation may never be used the dead code may raise [[exceptions]] or affect some global state, thus removal of such code may change the output of the program and introduce unintended [[software bug|bugs]]. Compiler optimizations are typically conservative in their approach to dead code removal if there is any ambiguity as to whether removal of the dead code will affect the program output.

Says Paul

== Example ==