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Re: Merging calls to `abort'
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 05 13:41:13 EST
- Subject: Re: Merging calls to `abort'
Distributions would have to triple the number of CDs shipped. Most
users don't know how to run a debugger. This means that there is no
debug information available until a developer tries to duplicate the
problem report. With or without cross-jumping, when the developer
gets a report from a user that "the program died with an abort", he or
she has to debug from scratch, only to find out in many cases that
it's a known bug, already fixed in CVS for the next release,
information that would have been revealed immediately by the output of
fancy_abort.
I agree. I find this a vert strong argument.