I know that functions can be called dynamically, but is there a way to determine statically which functions (and methods of ObjC objects) are not being called?
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I know that functions can be called dynamically, but is there a way to determine statically which functions (and methods of ObjC objects) are not being called?
I’m not sure that this is a sensible thing for someone to have attempted to make such a static analysis tool – it would be very complicated, and you would probably find that it would only find trvial examples of functions that would not be called – e.g. functions you’ve created in your classes, and you have no calls to them. All the stuff that interacts with Cocoa … well the problem is that they ‘might’ be called in different circumstances.
In any case, what you should really be interested in is runtime code coverage – as this would show you (with a decent suite of tests) what code is actually being used, which would be a smaller subset.