bfd_error_handler extension
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Aug 12 07:07:00 GMT 2004
Hi Alan,
> So my idea was to always pass extension args first. A call might look
> like
>
> (*_bfd_error_handler)
> (_("%B: bad reloc symbol index (0x%lx >= 0x%lx) for offset 0x%lx in section `%S'"),
> abfd, sec,
> (unsigned long) r_symndx, (unsigned long) nsyms, irela->r_offset);
> _bfd_default_error_handler then would process any %B or %S in the format
> string, and pass a substituted format string on to vfprint. There is
> some nastiness with this approach, since you need to expand "%" in any
> substitutions to "%%".
Which should be a pretty rare case right ? I think that this is a good
idea - code simplification is always a good thing.
Cheers
Nick
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