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Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 03:22:01 +0300 (MSK) |
8-Mar-99 16:54 Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, John Bley wrote:
>>
>> > Also, how much in the way of object size would removing these potentially
>> > useful fn()'s save, if in fact they really are unreferenced?
>> For a dozen mostly empty methods, probably not too much... few hundred
>> bytes at most.
> The most notable chunks of unused functions of some size may be in some of
> the HTAA_* files.
BTW, unused functions seems to be removed from the binary by linker/optimizer,
isn't it?
>> > For the sake
>> > of "completeness" (by some metric), it may be better to leave them in.
>> Which is kinda why I was asking about their history. If they have a
>> chance of being used/implemented sometime soon, yeah, sure, leave them in
>> or comment them out in some way.
> There are "PUBLIC" and "PRIVATE" (static) functions. I think we are only
> talking about PUBLIC functions - gcc gives warnings for unreferenced
> static functions.
> Most of the remaining unsused PUBLIC functions seem to be from an early
> time, probably parts of the libwww and linemode browser interface that
> remained unused when lynx went libwww. I regard their presence as
> useful information, they kind of show the ideas behind the modularization.
> I would like to see these not removed completely, but commented out.
> (I also wouldn't like to see all comments by TimBL etc. removed, they can
> teach the archeologists among us something.)
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- why not --disable--news (was: lynx-dev --disable-gopher, why not --disable-finger)?, Webmaster Jim, 1999/03/06
- Re: why not --disable--news (was: lynx-dev --disable-gopher, why not --disable-finger)?, Webmaster Jim, 1999/03/07
- lynx-dev Re: why not --disable-news, John Bley, 1999/03/07
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/07
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Dead code removal (was: Re: why not --disable-news), Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Philip Webb, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal,
Leonid Pauzner <=
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, mattack, 1999/03/08
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- lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news, Webmaster Jim, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Re: dead code removal, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, Klaus Peter Wegge, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, Sergey Svishchev, 1999/03/09
- Re: lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, David Woolley, 1999/03/10
- Re: lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news, brian j pardy, 1999/03/08