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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_tmp_filename: add explicit e


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_tmp_filename: add explicit error message
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:48:28 +0100
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Am 04.02.2013 14:33, schrieb Fabien Chouteau:
> On 02/04/2013 01:24 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>
>> Good error reporting is hard.  Knowledge about the error and its context
>> gets lost as you move up the call chain.  Knowledge about how to report
>> errors gets lost as you move down.
>>
> 
> You're right, and in my opinion, no error reporting is the worst case.

The best solution would be to pass an Error **errp argument and use
error_setg() on it, as done for visitors and QOM. Then the caller can
decide whether to pass NULL and the callee can report detailed errors.
Invasive change obviously and thus not suitable for 1.4.

Regards,
Andreas

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