Re: lynx-dev removing strings used in CTRACE when configured without

[dickey]

> 
> Vlad Harchev wrote: 
>  
> >  BTW, I explored cccp today. IMO it won't be easy to hack it so it that it 
> > can 
> > be compiled standalone (and be compact) - probably separate subdir, 
> > Makefile.in will be reqired, and I afraid, this will be about 
> > (optimistically) 
> > 600 KB...  
>  
> Adding 600KB of cpp source to the Lynx source distribution is an 
> unreasonable way to solve this problem.  We already have the example 
> from future libwww development, as a portable way to fix CTRACE. 
> Meanwhile, if the excess strings bother gcc users, use a local preparser 
> (like your lexer) -- or fix gcc! 
>  
> >Bela< 

this is becoming an faq (perhaps I should make a lynx-dev.faq.html to answer
questions on lynx-dev ;-)

The change I have in mind won't get done til after 2.8.2, since it would
needlessly touch a lot of stable code.  Not all of the trace code is
inside the CTRACE macros; those have to be revisited.


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