Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:53:47 +0200
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: Anton Helm <tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at>
Subject: Request for feature in DJGPP V2

Definition:
A program of size S {S > 0} has N {N > 0} bugs.

In v1.12 of DJGPP GO32 prints some stack traceback etc. to the screen which
can be inspected by symify.
This information is very usefull for the developer of the program but
"normal" users usually panic when discovering a "segmentation fault" or
something else.

Therefore I'm going to modify the GO32 sources to print a tiny message (on
top of the error message), what to do (e.g take a screendump and mail it to
the developer).

This works fine in 1.12. But there will be no more GO32 in 2.0. 

R: Could the developers of v2.0 consider a custom error message file that is
put into the program on compile-time ?

e.g:
"You have found a bug in 'myprog'. DON'T PANIC.
 Please make a screendump of this message and mail it to
developer AT somehost DOT somedomain ."


Tony
 

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