"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> writes:
> * Markus Armbruster (arm...@redhat.com) wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> include/qapi/error.h | 177
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>> 1 file changed, 127 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/qapi/error.h b/include/qapi/error.h
>> index 8c3a7dd..7d808e8 100644
>> --- a/include/qapi/error.h
>> +++ b/include/qapi/error.h
>> @@ -2,13 +2,75 @@
>> * QEMU Error Objects
>> *
>> * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
>> + * Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
>> *
>> * Authors:
>> * Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
>> + * Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
>> *
>> * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2. See
>> * the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
>> */
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Error reporting system loosely patterned after Glib's GError.
>
> Excellent; it's great to have this documented.
Thanks!
> Do we have a note anywhere that says why we don't just use GError?
I'm not aware of such a note, and I don't know / remember why we didn't
use GError. Perhaps one of the guys signing off the initial commit
does (cc'ing them):
commit d5ec4f27c387c3b3200abb8656343b2519ea3047
Author: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jun 1 12:14:49 2011 -0500
Introduce the new error framework
New error-handling framework that allows for exception-like error
propagation.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
Here's a possible clue:
GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread
implementatiocommit e18df14185e817ba735bce57ecdef9a55fb3d093
Author: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue Jul 19 14:50:29 2011 -0500
Add hard build dependency on glib
[...]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@gmail.com>
Error predates our use of GLib.
