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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2015-12-18 16:35:08 +0100
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2016-01-13 15:16:16 +0100
commitf4d0064afcff4c38b379800674938cde8f069dcd (patch)
tree2fdb4fec96764cf47a103a47ee6169bcebe14d82 /util
parent782886719822c956e800dfb9c0665e2b301cb1fb (diff)
error: Improve documentation
While there, tighten error_append_hint()'s assertion. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1450452927-8346-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/error.c2
-rw-r--r--util/qemu-error.c8
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/util/error.c b/util/error.c
index 9b27c4508e..ebfb74b02e 100644
--- a/util/error.c
+++ b/util/error.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ void error_append_hint(Error **errp, const char *fmt, ...)
return;
}
err = *errp;
- assert(err && errp != &error_abort);
+ assert(err && errp != &error_abort && errp != &error_fatal);
if (!err->hint) {
err->hint = g_string_new(NULL);
diff --git a/util/qemu-error.c b/util/qemu-error.c
index c1574bb348..ecf5708478 100644
--- a/util/qemu-error.c
+++ b/util/qemu-error.c
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ static void error_print_loc(void)
bool enable_timestamp_msg;
/*
* Print an error message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
- * Format arguments like vsprintf(). The result should not contain
- * newlines.
+ * Format arguments like vsprintf(). The resulting message should be
+ * a single phrase, with no newline or trailing punctuation.
* Prepend the current location and append a newline.
* It's wrong to call this in a QMP monitor. Use error_setg() there.
*/
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ void error_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
/*
* Print an error message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
- * Format arguments like sprintf(). The result should not contain
- * newlines.
+ * Format arguments like sprintf(). The resulting message should be a
+ * single phrase, with no newline or trailing punctuation.
* Prepend the current location and append a newline.
* It's wrong to call this in a QMP monitor. Use error_setg() there.
*/