Forum Post: RE: Finding potentially dead code in OOABL

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You should check out his presentation from Brussels pugchallenge.eu/.../emea_pug_challenge_2013_source_code_analysis.pdf There was significant progress from June to November. I haven't asked him lately what the schedule is, but I am expecting it soonish. Note that the parser is actually the parser from PDSOE, not something Gilles wrote. So, you already have the parser ... it is just figuring out how to use it. I don't see that XREF is going to do you much good for this. Which said, what about just compiling the code and collecting the unreachable code messages? That you can do without anything else. What beyond that do you expect to detect without some dynamic analysis?

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