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[patch] Expand comment about complain() replacement


Hello,

This patch just expands the description of what replaced complain() a little.

committed,
Andrew
2002-11-15  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>

	* complaints.h: Add comment explaining how to eliminate a
	deprecated_complain call.

Index: complaints.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/complaints.h,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 complaints.h
--- complaints.h	25 Oct 2002 22:25:55 -0000	1.5
+++ complaints.h	15 Nov 2002 20:54:02 -0000
@@ -53,12 +53,24 @@
 /* Deprecated interfaces to keep the old code working (until it is all
    converted to the above).  Existing code such as:
 
-     struct deprecated_complaint msg = { "msg", 0, 0 };
-     complaint (&msg);
+     struct deprecated_complaint msg = { "msg 0x%08x[sic]", 0, 0 };
+     deprecated_complain (&msg, addr);
 
-   should be replaced by:
+   should be replaced by either the new call (for the singular case):
 
-     complaint (&symtab_complaints, __FILE__, __LINE__, "msg");
+     complaint (&symtab_complaints, "msg 0x%s", paddr (addr));
+
+   or with a wrapper function (for the many-of case):
+
+     msg_complaint (CORE_ADDR addr)
+     { complaint (&symtab_complaints, "msg 0x%s", paddr (addr)); }
+     ...
+     msg_complaint (addr);
+
+   Yes, the typo is intentional.  The motivation behind this interface
+   change is to eliminate all possability of this problem re-occuring
+   (it has occured in the past and no one is sure that it isn't
+   present now).
 
    Support for complaining about things in the symbol file that aren't
    catastrophic.

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