Mirror of the gdb mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Bjarke Viksoe <bviksoe@hotmail.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: MI error msgs and localization
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060215030507.GA8700@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17394.34829.877266.50785@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:46:53PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> That's not quite what I said but it's a better idea as fewer changes need be
> made.  Better still might be to use a global variable, perhaps
> mi_error_message in mi-main.c could be used.  How about something like the
> patch below (in mi_execute_command) to be used like this:
> 
>   mi_error_message = xstrprintf ("no-debugging-symbols");
>   error(_("No debugging symbols found");
> 
> to give:
> 
>   &"No debugging symbols found\n"
>   ^error,msg="no-debugging-symbols"

Please don't.  If you need to pass two arguments to error, make a
two-argument version :-)

Passing arguments by globals is bad news.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-12 14:54 Bjarke Viksoe
2006-02-12 20:49 ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-13 18:37   ` Bjarke Viksoe
2006-02-13 19:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-13 20:01     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-14  1:30     ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-14 17:40       ` Bjarke Viksoe
2006-02-14 19:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-14 20:59         ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-14 21:05           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-14 23:26             ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-14 23:32               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-15  1:48                 ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-15  3:05                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-02-15  4:48                     ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-15 13:37                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-15 21:03                         ` Nick Roberts
2006-02-15 21:17                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-15  1:55             ` Bob Rossi

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20060215030507.GA8700@nevyn.them.org \
    --to=drow@false.org \
    --cc=bviksoe@hotmail.com \
    --cc=gdb@sourceware.org \
    --cc=nickrob@snap.net.nz \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox