Re: [Valgrind-developers] emulation warnings

[Florian K. <br...@ac...>]

On 09/02/2012 04:52 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 09/02/2012 11:44 AM, Florian Krohm wrote:
>> I would like to propose that we make the following changes related to
>> emulation warnings:
>     [snip]
>> (2) Issue a particular warning only once. Currently, we issue it up
>>     to three times.
>     [snip]
>> With respect to how often a specific warning is issued, I do not see an
>> advantage in giving it more than once. The amount of information
>> provided is the same in each such warning, as the message is fixed. Only
>> the backtrace could be different.
> 

> Particularly because I can see three tracebacks, I consider that
> the amount of information grows with each warning, up to 3 times or so.
> [Are they all the same?  Each different?  All from the same phase
> of the execution of the app (environment/startup, pass1, ...)? ]
> 

Looking at the current list of emulation warnings I cannot see how
having more than one backtrace would help.  If you really want to help
the user, rephrasing the warnings would be a very good thing.

   Florian