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When having unreachable code it allows programs to be vulnerable to attacks and threat, as discovered "Understanding the Origins of Mobile App Vulnerabilities: A Large-scale Measurement Study of Free and Paid Apps".

Thus when creating new libraries or functions...

1. Be wary when using and placement of statements such as break, continue, and return, as they're indicators that segments of code are at risk of being unreachable; as stated by "Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: 24th International Conference".  
   1. Use Structured Programming to help better the design of code therefore reducing the unnecessary use of break and continue; 
2. Modularize code as much as possible rather than combining methods/methods/classes/etc. into one.
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Noncompliant Code Example

This noncompliant code example shows an a line of code that is unreachable. 

int x = 1;
 
if (x == 1){
	return x;
	x += 1;  
}

The statement following the return statement will never get executed thus created errors and bugs in the program which rely on that statement.

Compliant Solution

In this compliant solution with reachable code.

int x = 1;

if (x == 1){
	x += 1;
	return x; 
}

Exceptions

Risk Assessment

Summary of risk assessment.

Automated Detection

Tools are available online, such as ProGuard, that help clean up code by removing unused statements that may have been a result of code being unreachable.

Related Guidelines

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