Re: [Qemu-devel] Status of sun4u emulation?

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> >  /home/mad/src/svn/qemu/tcg/tcg.c:1700: tcg fatal error
> >  qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - exiting

> These error messages could be more descriptive, like what is the
> problem and how to fix it.

FWIW The general theory with aborts is that that should never occur so there's 
no point being verbose.

From a user perspective "tcg.g:1700 fatal error" is IMHO no worse than "Bad 
voodoo when trying to frobnicate the weezle". The user has no control over 
weasel frobnication, so it just adds confusion.

For someone fixing the bug you're likely to need additional instrumentation, a 
debugger and/or a core dump anyway so the file and line number is sufficient 
context.

Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but if it were easy to report the 
problem and how to fix it we'd have done so already :-)

Paul