Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@ges.redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 09:29:00 GMT 2002
> On Aug 21, 11:21am, Andrew Cagney wrote:
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>> > It's not a grave problem? Please explain.
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>>
>> Eli's right here. The warning would be to strong.
>>
>> internal-error and internal-warning refer to GDB detecting an errenous
>> internal state. Error for non-recoverable, warning for recoverable.
>>
>> Unless some action is taken, the long term prognosis doesn't look good.
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> Wait a moment... You were going to use internal warnings to alert the
> users that a deprecated function has been called, right? I don't
> consider this to be an erroneous internal state that has to be
> recovered from.
I originally proposed that, but per above, I'm dropping the idea.
>> However, short term, GDB could just as easily die due to a SIGSEG.
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> It shouldn't so long as the gdb developers haven't broken the legacy
> functions that are being deprecated. (Unless it did before, but that's
> a different problem.)
>
> Kevin
>
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