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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:56:11 -0500
From: Aaron Bentley <abentley@panoramicfeedback.com>
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To: Colin Fox <cfox@cfconsulting.ca>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] botched invariant
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Colin Fox wrote:
> I hope that this particular error is being handled in 1.4. Please at
> least print the last path it was considering before dying.

A botched invariant is not a user error, so the right fix is to not fail 
the invariant in the first place.  Fail higher up.  The right error is 
"File with high-bit characters in filename encountered."

This invariant happens because the filenames are compared signed in one 
place and unsigned in another.  Considering I reported this bug about 
the same time last year, I don't hold out much hope that it will be 
fixed unless I fix it.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.


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