From 27b2a9dd0644792c1e2db4d24214396a40788073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolan.mcnamara@collabora.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:46:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] drop the unreachable tail of parse_mantissa

counter is always zero when the loops end, so the final
add_native never runs

seen in Coverity as cid#488376 DEADCODE dead_error_line
---
 include/fast_float/digit_comparison.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/fast_float/digit_comparison.h b/include/fast_float/digit_comparison.h
index 70085bed..6aac9522 100644
--- a/include/fast_float/digit_comparison.h
+++ b/include/fast_float/digit_comparison.h
@@ -330,10 +330,6 @@ parse_mantissa(bigint &result, parsed_number_string_t<UC> &num,
       }
     }
   }
-
-  if (counter != 0) {
-    add_native(result, limb(powers_of_ten_uint64[counter]), value);
-  }
 }
 
 template <typename T>