Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sun Nov 6 04:43:00 GMT 2005

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[Responding to old mail here...]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:09:05AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hmm, maybe what we should do is not abort, but issue a descriptive error 
> message ("file <foo> can no longer be found") and then exit ?  That way 
> we do not have to check all potential users of bfd_cache_lookup.

No: BFD is a library.  It has long-lived users with UI, not just the
command line binutils tools.  For instance, this abort has been
reported a half-dozen times as a GDB bug.

In HEAD now we get an annoyed message and things limp along, which may
be the best we can hope for.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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