Re: Reduce codebase

From: Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 20:54:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Reduce codebase
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--enable-maintainer-mode? - Stig On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:16, Marcus Börger wrote: > In a discussion about image.c code i was reminded that we do not need > to bother with emalloc returning NULL or array_init returning FAILURE. > Unforuately there are hundreds of such cases in PHP. When removing > all these parts with all the necessary checks and error messages we > could reduce the code base.... > > Indeed there is a simple way of doing so for array_init: change those > functions to be of return type void..... > > To make everybodys life easier i suggest we create a new configure > option --enable-developer or such which simply creates a define > that allows such changes. I would the like to have --enable-developer > being a shortcut for --enable-debug also (zts would break some builds > otherwise that also). When all developers would use this option i > guess such changes could be done easily and they would not harm > the normal users. > > marcus >

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