Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce error_report_{fatal|abort}

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 09/07 10:23, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Last time I needed to do error reporting I was told the error_setg
> method was the correct way to do it and the report/exit case made sense
> only in the top level. Before we add even more error reporting
> primitives can we update HACKING (or possibly add somethings to docs/)
> that describes when and where the various error report mechanisms should
> be used?

FWIW, the comment of error_setg clarifies the recommended usage now:

...
>  * Please don't error_setg(&error_fatal, ...), use error_report() and
>  * exit(), because that's more obvious.
>  * Likewise, don't error_setg(&error_abort, ...), use assert().
>  */
> #define error_setg(errp, fmt, ...)                              \
...

Fam