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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:12:08 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal: Unify printing the function name in panic messages()
Message-ID:  <511426B8.2070800@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <51141E33.4080103@gmx.de>
References:  <51141E33.4080103@gmx.de>

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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.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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