Proposal: Unify printing the function name in panic messages()

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 10:46:02 UTC 2013


On 9 Feb 2013 10:19, "Andriy Gapon" <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> on 09/02/2013 11:28 Christoph Mallon said the following:
> > On 09.02.2013 10:08, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> In any case, you just search the code for the message and that's it.
> >
> > Often the messages contains parameters (%d, %s, ...) or are split into
multiple lines to appease the ancient 80 columns god.
> > These make it harder to grep.
> > Having the /right/ name makes it easier to get to the right place.
>
> Having right tools for the search does that too.
> And doesn't require any code churn.

OK, which tool can one find a panic message split across lines in source
code?  I would find this very useful.

Chris


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