On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:44 AM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Kieran Kunhya (12019-06-27): > > I'm happy to do it now that I am aware of the issue. I will do it when I > am > > at home in a few days. > > Thanks. I am sure Steven will not mind waiting a few days. > > > This absolutism is absurd. > > Do you have an example of situation where dead code is good? > If i could add my 2 cents, for a reverse engineered codec it's important to leave unused functions purely for documentation purposes, so that future maintainers could implement and read about it right away, rather than digging in a large and messy git history. Additionally most compilers run passes that drop dead code already in a way that does not affect runtime one bit. So I really don't see any gains in removing these 14 lines of code. -- Vittorio _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
