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Re: Why does symfile.c use printf_filtered?
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:17:22AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.
Very strongly agree.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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