Anyone else? To make this work we would either have to include a md5  
algorithm is base (I found a BSD licensed one) or require libopenssl.

Ali

On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Ali Saidi wrote:

> 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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