Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news

[John Bley]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:

> | Meanwhile, I'm busy investigating dead code and have a question: Are all
> | these empty HText_* functions here for any particular reason?  Nothing's
> | even calling into them.  There are even several non-empty HText_ functions
> | that aren't ever getting called.
> 
> Which ones ...?
HText_canScrollUp for example.  HText_dump, HText_nodeAnchor.  There are 
about a dozen or so of these.  Plus one LY method.. something to do with 
image maps.  I should quit throwing away experimental files.

> Are you sure they're not called (some are called from code in the
> WWW/Lbrary/Implementations dir, BTW)?

A grep HText_dump `find .` in the top-level dir yields (space truncated):
src/GridText.c:PUBLIC void HText_dump ARGS1(
WWW/Library/Implementation/HText.h:#define HText_dump HTHTDump
WWW/Library/Implementation/HText.h:extern void HText_dump PARAMS((HText*me))

I.e., the definition, a name-shortening #define, and a declaration of its 
existence.  No call.  This example is typical of the rest.  I'll try to 
track down the complete list sometime soon.  Perhaps Tuesday.

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John Bley - address@hidden
Duke '99 - English/Computer Science
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