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| author | Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu> | 2005-05-25 16:06:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu> | 2005-05-25 16:06:12 -0400 |
| commit | 8f0e0bd2647988c1a4e785ba3cafb1037fbfb4d6 (patch) | |
| tree | fdeca7490c829635881b99f68bc148bf892eb57b | |
| parent | 432e779fb04470ae62ca47fe3ed9e00defd3e678 (diff) | |
| parent | e8b62d05ddf101a03ab82106bd870a981b8b34ad (diff) | |
| download | gem5-8f0e0bd2647988c1a4e785ba3cafb1037fbfb4d6.tar.xz | |
Merge zizzer.eecs.umich.edu:/z/m5/Bitkeeper/m5
into zizzer.eecs.umich.edu:/z/stever/bk/m5
--HG--
extra : convert_revision : 13696a8e526f7ded7555d009d03bdc7551557571
| -rw-r--r-- | base/misc.hh | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/base/misc.hh b/base/misc.hh index a4f9a99c5..ac5eab1cb 100644 --- a/base/misc.hh +++ b/base/misc.hh @@ -33,7 +33,11 @@ #include "base/cprintf.hh" // -// This implements a cprintf based panic +// This implements a cprintf based panic() function. panic() should +// be called when something happens that should never ever happen +// regardless of what the user does (i.e., an acutal m5 bug). panic() +// calls abort which can dump core or enter the debugger. +// // void __panic(const std::string&, cp::ArgList &, const char*, const char*, int) __attribute__((noreturn)); @@ -44,7 +48,12 @@ void __panic(const std::string&, cp::ArgList &, const char*, const char*, int) __panic__(args, cp::ArgListNull()) // -// This implements a cprintf based fatal +// This implements a cprintf based fatal() function. fatal() should +// be called when the simulation cannot continue due to some condition +// that is the user's fault (bad configuration, invalid arguments, +// etc.) and not a simulator bug. fatal() calls exit(1), i.e., a +// "normal" exit with an error code, as opposed to abort() like +// panic() does. // void __fatal(const std::string&, cp::ArgList &, const char*, const char*, int) __attribute__((noreturn)); |