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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com>,
	GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Add proper error message instead of gdb_assert
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204576230.19253.585.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803032000.m23K00SA027858@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 21:00 +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Markus Deuling wrote:
> 
> > when trying to put > 1 values into an array (fortran subrange) which
> > comes from a register, register_size is called with regnum == -1.
> 
> You need to fix the caller to not do this, then.
> 
> > This patch replaces that gdb_assert by a proper error message before
> > exiting:
> 
> An "internal error" is neither more nor less "proper" than a failed
> assertion.  Both say "there's a bug in GDB", and neither should be
> triggerable by normal user interaction.

Yes, but they're not equivalent.  An assertion failure terminates
the session.  Shouldn't we reserve that for situations that we
can reasonably assume are un-recoverable?



  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-03 20:30 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
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 [this message]
2008-03-03 20:25 ` Michael Snyder

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