Re: [unavailable regs/locals, 01/11] registers status upwards

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:21:48 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Another key point, is that not putting a TRY_CATCH were it would matter
> is fragile as well.  The whole operation is cancelled.  It makes the whole
> user experience _worse_.  Seing 0s is worse than <unavailable> at places,
> but it's much better than not seeing _anything_ at all.  E.g, the MI
> command I showed upthread.

Here is probably the major disagreement.  People bugreport when they see error
while they give up when the program does weird things they cannot understand.


> How about proceeding as is, and I'll revisit later if necessary?
> This is just _one_ detail in the whole story afterall.

I do not want to block anything.  But in such case a review does not make
sense as it is easier to put there compiler and/or exception checks than to
verify each statement by humans.


Thanks,
Jan