Would we need such a strong hash? A dumb CRC would likely be sufficient
if that would be easier to bring in.
Gabe
Ali Saidi wrote:
> 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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