fix corner case in `dead_code` (#3969)

fixes #3967

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/compress.js b/lib/compress.js
index c8c08a0e..a56e9331 100644
--- a/lib/compress.js
+++ b/lib/compress.js
@@ -3938,7 +3938,8 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
         });
         def(AST_Binary, function(compressor) {
             return this.left.may_throw(compressor)
-                || this.right.may_throw(compressor);
+                || this.right.may_throw(compressor)
+                || this.operator == "in" && !is_object(this.right.tail_node());
         });
         def(AST_Block, function(compressor) {
             return any(this.body, compressor);
diff --git a/test/compress/dead-code.js b/test/compress/dead-code.js
index 22eb0d91..5506b95a 100644
--- a/test/compress/dead-code.js
+++ b/test/compress/dead-code.js
@@ -1193,3 +1193,24 @@ self_assignments: {
     }
     expect_stdout: "PASS 2 PASS PASS"
 }
+
+issue_3967: {
+    options = {
+        dead_code: true,
+    }
+    input: {
+        var a = "FAIL";
+        try {
+            a = 0 in (a = "PASS");
+        } catch (e) {}
+        console.log(a);
+    }
+    expect: {
+        var a = "FAIL";
+        try {
+            a = 0 in (a = "PASS");
+        } catch (e) {}
+        console.log(a);
+    }
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}