Dead Code Elimination Through Type Inference.
Ozan Hafizogullari, Christoph Kreitz.
Technical Report TR 98-1698, Cornell University Ithaca, NY, March 1998.
Abstract
	We introduce a method to detect and eliminate dead code in typed functional programming languages. Our approach relies on a type system with simple subtypes for specifying dead code and a type inference algorithm for it. Through a careful seperation of the type system and the problem-specific assumptions we avoid ad hoc rules in the type system. This, combined with the fact that our approach makes the flow information in a program explicit and is based on well-understood concepts makes our approach a good candidate for a general framework for program analysis. Our technique can be used in optimizing compilers, optimization of programs extracted from theorem provers, optimization of modular systems, and other areas of software engineering.

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Bibtex Entry
	@TechReport{tr:HafizogullariKreitz98a, author = "Ozan Haf{\i}zo\~{g}ullar{\i} and Christoph Kreitz", title = "Dead Code Elimination Through Type Inference", institution = "Cornell University. Department of Computer Science", year = "1997", number = "TR 98-1673" }