Re: [ros-dev] VOTE: Switch to Wine Debug System

[Hartmut Birr]

Please split the voting for kernel mode and user mode components.

KERNEL MODE:  NO

USER MODE: YES

- Hartmut


Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   VOTING TOPIC: Switch to Wine Debug System, a run-time
> configurable
>  Debug System in which various debug modes can be used (TRACE, WARN,
>  FIXME, ERROR, etc). It would use DbgPrintEx along with Debug Filters
>  (just like on XP) which can be configured at run-time in the registry
>  to set how many of the messages to show. I believe the current WINE
>  system has the library doing all this checking, but it's possible they
>  do actually use the NT method. DbgPrintEx and filter states are
>  currently unimplemented in our ntdll/ntoskrnl, so they must be
>  implemented. Additionally, these Debug Messages would only be inserted
>  into the code for a DBG build, just like it is currently done now.
>  Finally, using this system will allow us to better share code with WINE.
>
>  PROS:
>               - Configurable debugging
>               - More versatility then just "Print Always" and "Print if
>  I remove NDEBUG"
>               - Better code sharing with WINE
>               - Will lead to the implementation of some DbgPrint
>  functions which NT Drivers are bound to use.
>
>  CONS:
>               - Requires developer time to switch to this system.
>               - Requires implementing some Kernel Functions.
>
>  VOTING TIME: 2 weeks. Results announced Monday 23rd at 5PM EST.
>
>  VOTING CHOICES:
>                                   - Yes! Get rid of DPRINT/DPRINT1 and
>  implement a run-time configurable Debug System with multiple verbose
>  levels, based on WINE syntax and Windows NT implementation.
>                                   - No! Stick with the current static,
>  compile-time DPRINT/DPRINT1 system.
>
>  VOTING OPEN TO: Due to the nature of this source-level change, voting
>  is opened only to developers.
>
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu