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<h1>Finding unreachable functions with deadcode</h1>
  
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  Alan Donovan<br>
  12 December 2023
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  <p>Functions that are part of your project&rsquo;s source code but can never be

reached in any execution are called “dead code”, and they exert a drag
on codebase maintenance efforts.
Today we’re pleased to share a tool named deadcode to help you identify them.

$ go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/deadcode@latest
$ deadcode -help
The deadcode command reports unreachable functions in Go programs.

Usage: deadcode [flags] package...

Example

Over the last year or so, we’ve been making a lot of changes to the structure of gopls...

Get the full details here: Finding unreachable functions with deadcode - The Go Programming Language