Re: [RFA]: error_silent for use in pending breakpoint support

["J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>]

Ping.

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> To properly support pending breakpoints, gdb needs to be able to 
> suppress the "not found" messages at will, but it also needs to 
> sometimes issue these messages and determine the cause of the error was 
> a "not found" event.
> 
> To handle the problem, I propose two new useful functions in utils.c.  
> The first is error_silent() which works just like error(), only it does 
> not issue the error message.  Like error(), it stores the error message 
> in gdb_lasterr.  This leads to the other new function: 
> error_last_output() which is used to output the last error message.
> 
> This allows the pending breakpoint support to issue the error message 
> when the user is doing the initial break command and to suppress it when 
> shared libraries are being loaded or a pending breakpoint is reenabled.
> 
> Ok to commit?
> 
> 2003-12-18  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> 
>        * linespec.c (decode_variable, symtab_from_filename):  Call
>        error_silent with error message instead of throwing an exception
>        directly.
>        * defs.h (error_silent, error_last_output): Add prototypes.
>        * utils.c (error_silent, error_last_output): New functions.
> 
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