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To: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Unify printing the function name in panic messages()
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on 07/02/2013 23:35 Christoph Mallon said the following:
> panic("just a message");

This seems perfect.
Panic without at least a stack trace or preferably a crash dump is practically
useless in most cases.  A stack trace already has all the function names.
So a function name in a message seems to be redundant.
JIMHO.

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Andriy Gapon