From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17079 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2002 12:43:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17052 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 12:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO systemhalted) (24.112.140.233) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 12:43:48 -0000 Received: from carlos by systemhalted with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hrGJ-0007gz-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:40:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:43:00 -0000 From: Carlos O'Donell To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ac131313@ges.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call Message-ID: <20020822124031.GB29293@systemhalted> References: <3D5C248D.4030003@ges.redhat.com> <1020815223303.ZM7495@localhost.localdomain> <20020816133012.GC11845@systemhalted> <3D5D030F.4050409@ges.redhat.com> <9003-Sun18Aug2002213705+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3D619A15.1040504@ges.redhat.com> <20020820131725.GA4803@systemhalted> <7458-Wed21Aug2002093822+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20020821130508.GC17486@systemhalted> <2110-Thu22Aug2002105101+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2110-Thu22Aug2002105101+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Useless-Header: oooohhmmm, chant the email mantra... X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00258.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:51:02AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:05:08 -0400 > > From: "Carlos O'Donell" > > > > > > What's wrong with making users scared? > > > > > > It's wrong because GDB users cannot do anything about the problem, and > > > the message's language seems to imply it's a potentially very grave > > > problem (which it isn't). > > > > It's not a grave problem? Please explain. > > The warning was being considered for the case when GDB calls a > deprecated function. As long as the deprecated function does its job, > a GDB user doesn't care about it being called. We certainly should > not scare users in this case telling them something like "GDB will > likely crash in a moment; you HAVE been warned!". I apologize for finding it hard to track a true line between gdb-user and gdb-developer ;-) c.