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From: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] segmentation fault in
	object.c:type_initialize_interface() if interface not defined
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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> On 04 Apr 2016, at 00:30, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 3 April 2016 at 18:56, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:
>> well, to summarise, I notified you that in certain conditions,
>> due to an non-obvious dependency that does not break the build
>> when not met, the existing code crashes at run time with a
>> segmentation fault, and I suggested that an assert might help
>> developers to save some debugging time.
>=20
> Which I completely agree with. If you want to send a patch
> to add the assert I'm happy to review it.

I guess the original report was clear enough for an active commiter to =
easily understand the problem and fix it, in significantly less =
iterations that I would need to produce a compliant and acceptable patch =
(reaching this point already took 9 messages). :-(

regards,

Liviu