Re: [PATCH 01/14] tools lib traceevent: Get rid of malloc_or_die() in show_error()

[Namhyung Kim]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:01:44 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 21:14:10 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:03:44 +0900
>> Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> What about returning error code rather than string?  This way we won't
>>> worry about the allocation of the error string itself.
>>> 
>>> But the downside of it is loosing a positional info of the error.
>>> Hmm.. what about using a static buffer in pevent for it then?
>>
>> A static buffer may be the solution. Never need to worry about
>> allocating it on error, as it will already be allocated. And we can add
>> APIs to print it nicely.
>>
>> Perhaps call it
>>
>> 	pevent->filter_error_buffer
>>
>> ?

Hmm.. thinking about it twice, if it's only for filter functions
wouldn't it be better moving it to event_filter rather than pevent?

	filter->error_buffer

Thanks,
Namhyung
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