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Re: elf32-hppa: abort rather than BFD_ASSERT

To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Subject: Re: elf32-hppa: abort rather than BFD_ASSERT
From: amodra at one dot net dot au
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:28:48 +0930
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, parisc-linux at lists dot parisc-linux dot org
References: <20010525130358.K9275@squeak.one.net.au> <20010524203356.A30247@lucon.org>

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:33:56PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> Why not give some useful messaages? I have been doing that for new
> tests I added.

Well, the asserts (now aborts) shouldn't ever happen :-)  They indicate
some sort of internal bfd error.  Note that "abort" is #defined to
_bfd_abort, which spits out file, line and function info, so we haven't
lost any information compared to the BFD_ASSERT code.

Alan

References:
- elf32-hppa: abort rather than BFD_ASSERT
  - From: amodra
- Re: elf32-hppa: abort rather than BFD_ASSERT
  - From: H . J . Lu

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