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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: ac131313@cygnus.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, kevinb@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: abort() to internal_error()
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102161555.HAA23672@bosch.cygnus.com> (raw)

> (gdb) pwd
> internal_error: /a/b/c/d/foo.c:47: function calls abort ()
> ....

Fine with me.

If this happens on my workstation, I don't care whether I get
internal_error or a core dump or whatever, I'm going to start debugging
gdb either way.

If this happens on a user's desktop, I prefer the "internal_error"
form, because I'll get "/a/b/c/d/foo.c:47" in the bug report.
I imagine the user either won't care, or will prefer internal_error.

I have a side comment: I've gotten two gdb core dumps in the past month.
Both of them are cycles in the type tree which lead to recursive
death in "maint print symbols".  (One was gdb/15, fixed, and the other
is in gdb/7, not analyzed yet).  So you are still going to get core
dumps even after this change.

But that is a separate issue.

Michael


             reply	other threads:[~2001-02-16  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-16  7:55 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
2001-02-16  8:36 ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-16  7:09 Andrew Cagney
     [not found] ` <ac131313@cygnus.com>
2001-02-16 11:59   ` Kevin Buettner
2001-02-16 12:08 ` J.T. Conklin
2001-02-16 12:16   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-02-16 12:39     ` Kevin Buettner

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