[Os-project-managers] Question about OSxLParserdata, OSInstance, OSOption

[Horand Gassmann]

Hi guys,

I probably should have asked this long ago, but I never really took  
everything on board and then I forgot.

Only today do I realize (again) that there is quite a difference in  
the things that are being stored in OSInstance and OSOption.  
OSInstance stores the entire instance into arrays and things and then  
duplicates everything into the OSInstance object. This seems wasteful  
to me, so I have in the OSoL parser been far more conservative and  
stored _nothing_ into m_mi... things. I store stuff into  
OSoLParserdata temporarily, and then copy them into the OSOption  
instance, upon which I will free the temporary storage in  
OSoLParserdata. OSResult and OSrLParserdata do things that way, too,  
and maybe that is where I picked up my habits.

I hope I am respecting the constitution. (I have not found anything  
about it in the statutes, so I am not sure.)

Cheers

gus