lynx-dev Re: dead code removal

[John Bley]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Webmaster Jim 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.
> 
> Besides dead code, are there places that have repeated code that would
> better be modularized (besides *Main*)?

That's a *much* harder question to automate (almost every patch I've 
submitted so far has resulted from experiments with automated auditing of 
source).  Still, I have some ideas along these lines, though it may be a 
long time before I can formalize a script for it.  I'll keep this idea on 
the back burner, thanks.

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John Bley - address@hidden
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