Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH build-fix v1 1/1] error: Don't use error_report() for assertion msgs.

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:29:50 -0800
Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden> wrote:

> Use fprintf(stderr instead. This removes dependency of libqemuutil.a
> on the monitor.
> 
> We can further justify this change, in that this code path should only
> trigger under a fatal error condition. fprintf-stderr is probably the
> appropriate medium as under a fatal error conidition the monitor itself
> may be down and out for the count. So assertion failure messages should
> go lowest common denominator - straight to stderr.
> 
> Fixes the build as reported by Kevin Wolf. Issue debugged and change
> suggested by Luiz Capitulino. Issue introduced by
> 5d24ee70bcbcf578614193526bcd5ed30a8eb16c.

Thanks for doing this Peter! I missed the prefix feature (well pointed
by Markus), but at least we unblocked other people's testing and can
fix it w/o rushing.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
>  util/error.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/util/error.c b/util/error.c
> index f11f1d5..7c7650c 100644
> --- a/util/error.c
> +++ b/util/error.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ void error_set(Error **errp, ErrorClass err_class, const 
> char *fmt, ...)
>      err->err_class = err_class;
>  
>      if (errp == &error_abort) {
> -        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err));
>          abort();
>      }
>  
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ void error_set_errno(Error **errp, int os_errno, ErrorClass 
> err_class,
>      err->err_class = err_class;
>  
>      if (errp == &error_abort) {
> -        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err));
>          abort();
>      }
>  
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void error_set_win32(Error **errp, int win32_err, 
> ErrorClass err_class,
>      err->err_class = err_class;
>  
>      if (errp == &error_abort) {
> -        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err));
>          abort();
>      }
>  
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void error_free(Error *err)
>  void error_propagate(Error **dst_err, Error *local_err)
>  {
>      if (local_err && dst_err == &error_abort) {
> -        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(local_err));
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(local_err));
>          abort();
>      } else if (dst_err && !*dst_err) {
>          *dst_err = local_err;