In addition to fine debug support at the debugger level of NEWGEN and
PIPS objects, higher level debug can be triggered using environment
variables such as $DEAD_CODE_DEBUG_LEVEL on
Figure 6 with the debug_on() called up
to a matching debug_off(). For example, if
$DEAD_CODE_DEBUG_LEVEL has the value or more,
dead_statement_filter() displays its current statement on
Figure 8.