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		dajonker on Dec 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus I might be wrong but most optimizing compilers will treat "if false" and the following code as dead and remove it.

Filligree on Dec 29, 2024 [–]

It will remove it, but not until after resolving symbols. If the branch-never-taken references a missing library then this will still error, which is the problem for a feature flag.

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