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Re: Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:51:02AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:05:08 -0400
> > From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
> >
> > > > What's wrong with making users scared?
> > >
> > > It's wrong because GDB users cannot do anything about the problem, and
> > > the message's language seems to imply it's a potentially very grave
> > > problem (which it isn't).
> >
> > It's not a grave problem? Please explain.
>
> The warning was being considered for the case when GDB calls a
> deprecated function. As long as the deprecated function does its job,
> a GDB user doesn't care about it being called. We certainly should
> not scare users in this case telling them something like "GDB will
> likely crash in a moment; you HAVE been warned!".
I apologize for finding it hard to track a true line between gdb-user
and gdb-developer ;-)
c.