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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: deuling@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, uweigand@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Add proper error message instead of gdb_assert
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204576131.19253.582.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803031955.m23Jt7cj019540@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 20:55 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> 
> Sorry, but I don't see why your error message is "proper".  The
> gdb_assert() should never fail; the fact that it does means that you
> have a bug elsewhere in gdb.

Isn't that what the "internal error" call is for?

The fact that there's a bug somewhere else in gdb is not
necessarily a reason to abort the debugging session.
It COULD be that severe -- but I don't think we necessarily
need to assume it is.

If so, we might just about as well call abort from main, 
because there are *always* bugs somewhere else in gdb...
(1/2 <g>)





  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-03 19:37 Markus Deuling
2008-03-03 19:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-03-03 20:29   ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-03-03 20:37     ` Mark Kettenis
2008-03-04  4:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-03 20:39     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-03 20:46       ` Markus Deuling
2008-03-03 21:12       ` Markus Deuling
2008-03-03 21:17         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-03 20:00 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-03-03 20:30   ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-03 20:25 ` Michael Snyder

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