dead-code

Are there any tools that can determine if a function/procedure/method/entire class is used? I've seen tools that can help a knowledgeable developer track down unused fragments of code (most are for languages other than Delphi) but most have a steep learning curve and/or require considerable digging to determine if a code fragment is used or not. Delphi's smart linker purportedly does this to reduce the size of the final executable. Unfortunately what little information is given on the smart linker doesn't indicate a way to retrieve what was culled from the hurd. Admittedly, even if it is

This question already has an answer here: find dead JavaScript code? 7 answers I am trying to remove unused functions from my project. Since it has thousands of lines, this takes forever. Code coverage tools may suggest functions that are not used in a given test case, but it may be dangerous to rely only on this. Is there another tool which can help with this? You can try Google Closure compiler. It has different settings and you can also remove dead code automatically. You can try it here: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home For more info read here: http://code.google.com/closure

I've got an application that's using a static library I made. One .cpp file in the library has a static variable declaration, whose ctor calls a function on a singleton that does something- e.g. adds a string. Now when I use that library from the application, my singleton doesn't seem to contain any traces of the string that was supposed to be added. I'm definitely missing something but I don't know what.. If you have an object in a static library that is not EXPLICITLY used in the application. Then the linker will not pull that object from the lib into the application. There is a big

I'm having a hard time finding information about javac 's code elimination capabilities: I read that if you have something like the following, the if -statement will be eliminated: static final boolean DEBUG = false; if (DEBUG) System.out.println("Hello World!"); // will be removed But how about this, for example: static final int VALUE = 3; if (VALUE > 9) System.out.println("VALUE > 9 ???"); // will this be removed? Or this: static final SomeEnum VALUE = SomeEnum.FOO; if (VALUE==SomeEnum.BAR) System.out.println("Bar???"); // will this be removed? Since it's very difficult/impossible to

There is an inspection "Unused declaration" which can find all unused code in Intellij Idea. (see this question ) But I want to find all unused classes, not methods, variables etc. Only classes. (it is difficult to find only classes in 3000 result list). How I can do that? BlondCode Press Ctrl + Shift + A (in Mac Command + Shift + A ) Enter "unused declar" Double-click on "Unused declaration" Settings will pop up Click on Java/Declaration redundancy/Unused declaration on the right bottom select "On the fly editor settings" untick check fields, ..., check parameters. Only Check Classes should