Re: doesn't this look incorrect?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 06:30:22 +0100
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> > >   static int isdead = 0;
> > >
> > >   if (isdead == 2)
> > >
> > > This is apparently a mistake.
> > 
> > I don't think so. See what `static' means for a variable declaration
> > inside a function.
> 
> Still it seems to me that Christopher has a point: the `if' doesn't
> seem reachable from any other path, so `isdead' will be always zero
> at that point?

It will be "reachable" by the next call to this function.  The code below
the 'if' updates the variable, in several places.