On 2012-12-10 2:17 AM, David Levine wrote: > Paul V. wrote: > >> Given that we no longer use pdp11, we can afford the code space of a >> config file reader that knows comments and lacks the other rfc822 >> features not used in config files and has reasonable error messages. >> Let's start by removing those callers of getfld by giving them >> something better to call instead. > Yes!
i'm taking that as approval by people who will variously do the work of: 1. getting all non-rfc822-reading callers of m_getfld() to call something else; 2. removing any m_getfld code that was just for those callers, even if it means removing arguments from all other calls to m_getfld; 3. teaching m_getfld to never try to go behind the veil of stdio's api; 4. teaching m_getfld to stop optimizing for the vax pcc. this would be a gigantic improvement, droll though it sounds here. if m_getfld only did one thing, portably, then we could look very hard at it and decide if a different api would serve that one purpose better. right now the hairball is both above and below the m_getfld call frame. paul _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
