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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 22:30:10 +0100
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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: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>
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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.

Which I completely agree with. If you want to send a patch
to add the assert I'm happy to review it.

thanks
-- PMM