Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@ges.redhat.com
Mon Aug 19 18:23:00 GMT 2002
>> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:50:07 -0400
>> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
>>
>> (gdb) maint internal-error
>> /home/scratch/GDB/src/gdb/maint.c:121: gdb-internal-error: internal
>> maintenance
>> An internal GDB error was detected. This may make further
>> debugging unreliable. Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n
>>
>> Create a core file containing the current state of GDB? (y or n) n
>> (gdb)
>>
>> s/error/warning/
>>
>> Since the user is going to need to interact with this, they will get
>> very annoyed with it pretty quick.
>
>
> Yes, I think users will get annoyed and even scared. The message is
> meant for the port maintainers, not for users.
Another option is, by default, have the message disabled. Only enable
it when in say maintainer-mode or while running the testsuite.
>> This is why I'm also proposing another command for gaging it :-)
>
>
> But that won't help, since most users will wtill see the message
> until they gag it.
>
> I like Kevin's suggestion better.
My intent was for the message to only appear once.
enjoy,
Andrew
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