Re: fatal error handling

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> > You're missing the point:
> > It's about making MiNT always reboot, when a fatal error is intercepted.
> > The log file is only meant as an added bonus to help in debugging.
> 
> Would probably make a good idea to make this optional. You may not 
> always want the MiNT system to reboot after a fatal error.
> 
> Generating a log is also a good idea. Can help a lot.

Generally, it is already done so for years now. On a fatal error MiNT
halts writing a "log" (I don't think it could write more to a disk based
log file, so this doesn't make difference) to the console and adding a
line saying: "FATAL ERROR. You have to reboot the system".

Isn't that basically the same? I mean writing such stuff to a logfile
wouldn't be more useful, but more difficult instead, as it has been
already mentioned.

Gtx,

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