lynx-dev Re: dead code

[John Bley]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> >WWW/Library/Implementation/HText.h:#define HText_dump HTHTDump
> First thing that jumps to mind -- are you sure people aren't calling it 
> with the HTHTDump name?  In other words, it looks like you're searching for
> one of the names it can go by (via a define).

You're reading the #define backwards.  The purpose of this is to shorten 
the name of all occurences of HText_dump to HTHTDump, presumably so it 
can be handled by outdated linkers with extremely hard limits on symbol 
size.  Look at the file where this happens and you'll see what I mean.

Good idea to be cautious though.  I should have more hard info on Tuesday 
at some point.

-- 
John Bley - address@hidden
Duke '99 - English/Computer Science
  Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space,
  which is also a mess, which we call reality.     - Larry Wall