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AME
fatal
- print a message and dump core
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YNTAX
#include "error.h"
void fatal(char *
format_string
, ...);
D
ESCRIPTION
This function takes the same type of argument as 'printf', and prints these with any available debug information. (A trace of the 512 last executed instructions if you compiled with DEBUG.) Then it forces the driver to dump core so you can examine the bug with a debugger. Use with extreme caution, an error() might sometimes be a lot better...
K
EYWORDS
error_handling
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EE
A
LSO
error