From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11419 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2002 19:20:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11248 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2002 19:20:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2002 19:20:25 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F193CBB; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:54:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DFE2153.7060308@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:25:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] improved error message References: <200212132326.gBDNQdAm009198@to-limbo.toronto.redhat.com> <3DFDFE7C.3060100@redhat.com> <20021216163625.GB16417@nevyn.them.org> <3DFE0378.7080902@redhat.com> <20021216165812.GB17039@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00498.txt.bz2 >> >These are essentially internal error messages - none of them should >> >ever happen. They do now, of course. >> > >> >IMVHO I like Michael's change; now when people report these error >> >messages I'll know automatically which one they are. They tend to be >> >only spontaneously reproducible. > >> >> If it is a internal error, call internal_error(). > > >>>From a practicality viewpoint, I refuse to do that when we know of > multiple situations which trigger these problems. I still get them > reported to me every couple of weeks. Sorry I don't see the problem. If it is an internal error then it should be reported as such. That way the user can do things like provide us with a core dump. Andrew