Yea I thought about that. Pretty much if you update an error message,
you need to move the old hash to the new hash on the wiki.
Ali
On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Gabe Black wrote:
> That sounds like a good idea, but what if I had panic("Soemthing bad")
> and changed it to panic("Something bad")? They'd be the same thing but
> with different hashes.
>
> Gabe
>
> Ali Saidi wrote:
>> We've talked for a while about needing better error messages, links,
>> more descriptions on the website, etc. How about we modify panic(),
>> fatal(), and warn() to hash the format string for the message and
>> print out a url with some portion of that hash.
>>
>> So:
>> fatal("Parameter %s.%s was not specified")
>> would turn into:
>> Fatal: Parameter foo.bar was not specified
>> See http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/9c6d054cbec3
>>
>> As people asked questions we could populate the hashes with answers
>> in
>> the wiki. (We could also use url re-writing to make the url a bit
>> smaller).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Ali
>>
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