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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 21:56:15 EST
From: "Todd C. Parnell" <tparnell@MIT.EDU>


I am confused on probelm 4b.  How are we supposed to determine dead code?  
The Whale book's alg starts with returned values or field assignment and 
works backwards marking needed calculations.  However, the code you gave 
us has no exit block nor return statements, and none of the variables 
appears to be "non-local".

Help appreciated.

Todd


