Problem report #5

[Dan Nicolaescu]

ERROR
CID: 5
Checker: DEADCODE (help)
File: emacs/src/buffer.c
Function: recenter_overlay_lists
Description: Assigning "tail" to "prev"

3139         with some future change.  */

Event assignment: Assigning "0" to "prev"
Event const: After this line, the value of "prev" is equal to 0
Also see events: 
[dead_error_line][dead_error_condition][const][const][assignment]

3140      prev = NULL;

Event const: After this line, the value of "prev" is equal to 0
Event assignment: Assigning "tail" to "prev"
Also see events: 
[dead_error_line][dead_error_condition][assignment][const][assignment]

3141      for (tail = buf->overlays_before; tail; prev = tail, tail = next)
3142        {
3143          next = tail->next;
3144          XSETMISC (overlay, tail);
3145    
3146          /* If the overlay is not valid, get rid of it.  */
3147          if (!OVERLAY_VALID (overlay))
3148    #if 1
3149            abort ();
3150    #else
3151            {
3152              /* Splice the cons cell TAIL out of overlays_before.  */
3153              if (!NILP (prev))
3154                XCDR (prev) = next;
3155              else
3156                buf->overlays_before = next;
3157              tail = prev;
3158              continue;
3159            }
3160    #endif
3161    
3162          beg = OVERLAY_START (overlay);
3163          end = OVERLAY_END (overlay);
3164    
3165          if (OVERLAY_POSITION (end) > pos)
3166            {
3167              /* OVERLAY needs to be moved.  */
3168              int where = OVERLAY_POSITION (beg);
3169              struct Lisp_Overlay *other, *other_prev;
3170    
3171              /* Splice the cons cell TAIL out of overlays_before.  */

Event dead_error_condition: On this path, the condition "prev != 0" could not 
be true
Also see events: [dead_error_line][assignment][const][const][assignment]

3172              if (prev)

Event dead_error_line: Cannot reach this line of code
Also see events: [dead_error_condition][assignment][const][const][assignment]

3173                prev->next = next;
3174              else
3175                buf->overlays_before = next;
3176    
3177              /* Search thru overlays_after for where to put it.  */