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Re: abort in bfd_cache_lookup_worker

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:50:09 +0000
Subject: Re: abort in bfd_cache_lookup_worker
References: <20051026085346.GQ17244@bubble.grove.modra.org> <435F55C1.2050307@redhat.com> <20051106044314.GA16494@nevyn.them.org>

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:09:05AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
Hmm, maybe what we should do is not abort, but issue a descriptive error message ("file <foo> can no longer be found") and then exit ? That way we do not have to check all potential users of bfd_cache_lookup.
No: BFD is a library.  It has long-lived users with UI, not just the
command line binutils tools.  For instance, this abort has been
reported a half-dozen times as a GDB bug.

Good point - sorry, I should have remembered that myself.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- Re: abort in bfd_cache_lookup_worker
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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