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From: pg@sweng.stortek.com
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Subject: Re: OS/390 specific directory in 2.0
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:16:43 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <006f01bf9704$174f4e80$0a1aa8c0@jetnet.co.uk> from "David Reid"
 at Mar 26, 2000 10:17:09 AM
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In a recent note, David Reid said:

> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:17:09 +0100
> 
> So, when we look at the code page stuff, it should be possible (and would
> make the code much more readable) if the folks who need the conversion go
> down that road.  We could even have the ap_convert functions simply as noops
> for unix (and most other platforms) and only actually do something with them
> for those platforms that need them.  In the main code we can simply call the
> function and not need to worry about wrapping it in #ifdef's and let APR do
> it's thing.
> 
For reasons of performance, these noops should be defined in header files
as macros which generate no code where unnecessary, so APR isn't even
called in the do-nothing case.

-- gil
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