Phpunit, why is this a dead code?

Question

I'm using PHPUnit (4.1.3) and it calls something as dead code:

it really annoys me. Its OK that codes after return are dead, but calling a closing bracket as dead code is just overkill

Answer 1

XDebug parsing issue, so the closing brace is not executed after the return statement since the code leaves that function and does not actually execute the closing brace. This is a known issue in the XDebug/PHP/PHPUnit parsing/executing space.