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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Why does symfile.c use printf_filtered?
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:30:23 -0400
> From: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> 
> Does anybody know why symfile.c uses printf_filtered()?
> 
> This causes a couple of problems, most notably when you load a module with a lot 
> of shared library references.  The messages for "Reading symbols from"... inside 
> symfile.c are printed filtered so eventually we end up causing a page break.  I 
> do not think this information is worthy of requiring user intervention.

Unless there's some important situation where this is necessary, it
does seem silly to use printf_filtered in this case.