void F() { Console.WriteLine("reachable"); goto Label; Console.WriteLine("unreachable"); Label: Console.WriteLine("reachable"); }the second invocation of Console.WriteLine is unreachable because there is no possibility that the statement will be executed. end example] Paragraph 31 A warning is reported if the compiler determines that a statement is unreachable. 2 It is specifically not an error for a statement to be unreachable. [Note: To determine whether a particular statement or end point is reachable, the compiler performs flow analysis according to the reachability rules defined for each statement. The flow analysis takes into account the values of constant expressions (§14.15) that control the behavior of statements, but the possible values of non-constant expressions are not considered. In other words, for purposes of control flow analysis, a non-constant expression of a given type is considered to have any possible value of that type. In the example
void F() { const int i = 1; if (i == 2) Console.WriteLine("unreachable"); }the boolean expression of the if statement is a constant expression because both operands of the == operator are constants. As the constant expression is evaluated at compile-time, producing the value false, the Console.WriteLine invocation is considered unreachable. However, if i is changed to be a local variable
void F() { int i = 1; if (i == 2) Console.WriteLine("reachable"); }the Console.WriteLine invocation is considered reachable, even though, in reality, it will never be executed. end note] Paragraph 41 The block of a function member is always considered reachable. 2 By successively evaluating the reachability rules of each statement in a block, the reachability of any given statement can be determined. [Example: In the example
void F(int x) { Console.WriteLine("start"); if (x < 0) Console.WriteLine("negative"); }the reachability of the second Console.WriteLine is determined as follows:
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