2002-11-15 Andrew Cagney * complaints.h: Add comment explaining how to eliminate a deprecated_complain call. Index: complaints.h =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/complaints.h,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 complaints.h --- complaints.h 25 Oct 2002 22:25:55 -0000 1.5 +++ complaints.h 15 Nov 2002 20:54:02 -0000 @@ -53,12 +53,24 @@ /* Deprecated interfaces to keep the old code working (until it is all converted to the above). Existing code such as: - struct deprecated_complaint msg = { "msg", 0, 0 }; - complaint (&msg); + struct deprecated_complaint msg = { "msg 0x%08x[sic]", 0, 0 }; + deprecated_complain (&msg, addr); - should be replaced by: + should be replaced by either the new call (for the singular case): - complaint (&symtab_complaints, __FILE__, __LINE__, "msg"); + complaint (&symtab_complaints, "msg 0x%s", paddr (addr)); + + or with a wrapper function (for the many-of case): + + msg_complaint (CORE_ADDR addr) + { complaint (&symtab_complaints, "msg 0x%s", paddr (addr)); } + ... + msg_complaint (addr); + + Yes, the typo is intentional. The motivation behind this interface + change is to eliminate all possability of this problem re-occuring + (it has occured in the past and no one is sure that it isn't + present now). Support for complaining about things in the symbol file that aren't catastrophic.