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A class, method, or field may be dead even if it has dependencies from other parts of the program,

if those dependencies are from code that is also considered to be dead. We can also consider this

from the opposite side - an element is live, if and only if there is an entry point - such as a

<code>main</code> method - that eventually calls the method, reads the field or constructs the class.

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When identifying dead code, we make an assumption that the snapshot of the project includes all

possible callers of the code. If the project is a library project, this may not be the case, and

code may be flagged as dead when it is only used by other projects not included in the snapshot.

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You can customize the results by defining additional "entry points" or by identifying fields that

are accessed using reflection. You may also wish to "whitelist" classes, methods or fields that

should be excluded from the results. Please refer to the Semmle documentation for more information.

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