RE: [GD-General] runtime error logging

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

The reason is lost in the mists of time, but I think it was so you could do
obscure things like:

if ( type == TYPEA )
{
	ERROR ( "Error in thingie of type 'A'" );
}
else if ( type == TYPEB )
{
	ERROR ( "Error in thingie of type 'B'" );
}

...though actually you could have changed those to:

ERROR ( "Error in thingie of type %s", "A" );
ERROR ( "Error in thingie of type %s", "B" );


Oh, there probably was a good reason for it, many years ago :-)



Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Lewin [mailto:GL...@cl...]
> Sent: 16 July 2003 07:46
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] runtime error logging
> 
> 
> Silly questoin, but couldn't you hash the string before the 
> params were
> evaluated ? So you would just hash "Unknown effect '%s' in 
> mesh '%s'\n" 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Forsyth [mailto:to...@mu...]
> > Sent: 14 July 2003 17:03
> > To: gam...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [GD-General] runtime error logging
> > 
> > 
> > We do three things. (1) surround high-frequency info with 
> > single quotes. (2)
> > hash the characters _not_ in single quotes. (3) check hash 
> > against a list of
> > "I've already reported that" errors. So you have:
> > 
> > LOG_ERROR ( "Unknown effect '%s' in mesh '%s'\n", 
> > sEffectName, sMeshName );
> > 
> > So this is a spritnf-style format string, and will come out 
> > to be something
> > like:
> > 
> > Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah.x'
> > Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah2.x'
> > Unknown effect 'WATRE' in mesh 'blah3.x'
> > 
> > ...so then we remove everything in single quotes:
> > 
> > Unknown effect  in mesh 
> > Unknown effect  in mesh 
> > Unknown effect  in mesh 
> > 
> > ...and hash those. And of course they all come out with the 
> > same hash value
> > and only the first one gets reported if you click on "Ignore 
> > all" in our
> > little dialog box.
> > 
> > 
> > Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.
> > 
> > This email is the product of your deranged imagination,
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> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andras Balogh [mailto:bn...@ma...]
> > > Sent: 14 July 2003 16:41
> > > To: gam...@li...
> > > Subject: [GD-General] runtime error logging
> > > 
> > > 
> > > There are some cases when I have to deal with runtime errors that
> > > cannot be seen before, such as when the user executes an invalid
> > > script. I can handle these events, but I would also like 
> to log them
> > > somewhere. The problem is that these invalid events may happen in
> > > every frame (or even multiple times a frame) flooding the 
> > log file in
> > > no time...
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on how I could do "singleton" logging of errors?
> > > Can't think of any simple solution :(
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > Bandi
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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