From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23819 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2002 07:49:19 -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 23812 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 07:49:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO odin.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 07:49:18 -0000 Received: from Zaretsky ([80.230.2.40]) by odin.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.58-GA) with ESMTP id ALS89119; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:48:27 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:49:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: carlos@baldric.uwo.ca Message-Id: <2110-Thu22Aug2002105101+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> CC: ac131313@ges.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20020821130508.GC17486@systemhalted> (carlos@baldric.uwo.ca) Subject: Re: Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii 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> X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00257.txt.bz2 > 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!".