"Unreachable Code" error

[noweare]

I am getting the above error on the blue code below.
I don't know why this would happen, looks ok to me.
Sorry for not using code tags but the editor wouldnt let me highlight within the code tage


#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
unsigned int upBtn=0x02; 
unsigned int state=2, floor;

    if (upBtn > 0){

      if(upBtn & 0x01){
            floor=0;
      }
   
      else if(upBtn & 0x02){
            floor=1;
      }
   
      else if(upBtn & 0x04){
            floor=2;
      }
   
      else if(upBtn & 0x08){
            floor=3;
      }
   }


    return 0;
}

[noweare]

Its a warning not an error. I ran the code and the line was indeed able to be reached.

[TimoVJL]

You get warning test1.c(11): warning #2154: Unreachable code. from optimized code, as optimizer removes unused code.
Compile it without optimizations to see difference.

EDIT: for testing

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volatile unsigned int upBtn = 0x02;


[noweare]

Yes that worked. That was just a piece of a larger program so upBtn is shown not to change to test something out.
Thank you.

[AlexN]

In your example the blue line is uneachable because the locale variable upBtn is defined with the constant value 0x02. So all pathes exept with upBtn & 0x02 are unreachable. If you make upBtn global, the unreachable vanish.

[noweare]

Right, there is no change in that variable floor will always be equal to 1, evaluation of the if statements would not be necessary.
Thanks AlexN