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Predicate noSideEffects

Holds if evaluating e has no side effects (except potentially allocating and initializing a new object).

For calls, we do not check whether their arguments have any side effects: even if they do, the call itself is useless and should be flagged by this query.

Import path

import Expressions.ExprHasNoEffect
predicate noSideEffects(Expr e)