FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:18:43 -0500, "Sam Denton" <denton AT wantec.com>
wrote:

> > From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:34 PM
> >
> > Brian, on that point, many functions in tds/convert.c pass "src" or
> > "dest" unnecessarily.  It's as though at one point there might have
> > been an intention to make all the conversion functions conform to a
> > single signature.  Was there any such goal?  If not, I'd like to
> > remove the unused parameters.

> Without looking at the code, there are lots of cases where one wants to
> store function pointers in an array or something.  To avoid typecasts,
> you need to give the functions the same signature, and learn to live
> with the compiler's complaints about unused parameters.

Yes, but with looking at the code :) I can't find any such array.  If
there isn't any intention to create one, I'd like to remove the unused
arguments.  Clean code attracts good hackers.  

--jkl