Re: LYNX-DEV lynx_w32.zip feedback

[T.E.Dickey]

On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 10:31:12PM -0400, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> >     I got the current W32 binary to try on this PC with Windows 95.
> > It's dev4, even though mods by Wayne are in the dev5 sources at sol, so
> 
> The dev 4 binary has the mods for dev 5 in it already.  It was just a
> version renaming oversight.  
> 
> > I don't know if this problem is fixed, but the trace log feature isn't
> > working properly for me.
> 
> No, it doesn't work yet.  I have looked at it since but haven't figured it
> out.  I haven't given up yet, but i'm still nursing my forehead from the
> first attempt. 
I think we should replace all of the
        if(TRACE)fprintf(stderr,....)
with a call that hides the function pointer, and #define'd to allow removing
it entirely:

#define DPRINTF(p) dprintf p;

(yes, I'm aware that it would run about 1% slower if we pass all of that
stuff on the stack - but it would be much simpler to maintain).

I'm reluctant to do this at the moment because I'd like to be able to
compare 2.7.2 and 2.8 while I'm ironing out the parser problem - once
done with that, there'll be no reason - for me - to want to compare
directly to 2.7.2 anymore.  (Things like Cc are simpler to compare).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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