RE: An optimization for another day (and developer)

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Kurt D. Zeilenga

> At 07:05 AM 2001-12-28, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> >> BTW, one optimization I intended to implement but haven't
> >> the time is to allow:
> >>       struct berval bv = { 0, NULL }
> >>       struct berval *bvp = &bv;
> >> 
> >>       rc = dnPretty( NULL, &dn, &bvp );
> >>       rc = dnNormalize( NULL, &dn, &bvp );
> >> 
> >> That is, allow call to provide, optionally, a
> >> pre-allocated struct berval instead of relying
> >> on the caller to malloc on up.  Of course, in
> >> some cases, the existing behavior is preferred.

One question - it seems that the first parameter (syntax) is never used.
Why is it present on the parameter list? Is this an item for future work?

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