- if (reachability == null)
- reachability = child.Reachability.Clone ();
- else
- reachability.Meet (child.Reachability);
-
- // A local variable is initialized after a flow branching if it
- // has been initialized in all its branches which do neither
- // always return or always throw an exception.
- //
- // If a branch may return, but does not always return, then we
- // can treat it like a never-returning branch here: control will
- // only reach the code position after the branching if we did not
- // return here.
- //
- // It's important to distinguish between always and sometimes
- // returning branches here:
- //
- // 1 int a;
- // 2 if (something) {
- // 3 return;
- // 4 a = 5;
- // 5 }
- // 6 Console.WriteLine (a);
- //
- // The if block in lines 3-4 always returns, so we must not look
- // at the initialization of `a' in line 4 - thus it'll still be
- // uninitialized in line 6.
- //
- // On the other hand, the following is allowed:
- //
- // 1 int a;
- // 2 if (something)
- // 3 a = 5;
- // 4 else
- // 5 return;
- // 6 Console.WriteLine (a);
- //
- // Here, `a' is initialized in line 3 and we must not look at
- // line 5 since it always returns.
- //
- bool unreachable = child.Reachability.IsUnreachable;
-
- Report.Debug (2, " MERGING SIBLING #1", reachability,
- child.Type, child.Reachability.IsUnreachable, unreachable);
-
- if (!unreachable)
- locals &= child.locals;