Re: [PHP4BETA] Behaviour not not implemented functions is *unfriendly*

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > hi, > > in link.c (an many other places) we find code like this: > > PHP_FUNCTION(readlink) > { > #if HAVE_SYMLINK > pval *filename; > char buff[256]; > int ret; > > ...snip... > > /* Append NULL to the end of the string */ > buff[ret] = '\0'; > RETURN_STRING(buff,1); > #endif > } > > so, if you platform does not have symlinks your not getting anything - > no warning etc. (very often we have #ifs like this for functions that > aren't available for win32). i think we should either issue a warning > if some-function is not implemented or return a "call to undefined > function" (the later would be harder to implement i suppose). The latter would only be a matter of wrapping that #if around readlink's entry in the function table. This is how the same thing is done for a lot of other functions. Hope you had an excellent vacation in Gibraltar, Thies :-) - Stig