Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH] tools/toollog: Drop XTL_NEW_LOGGER()"):
> The underlying issue with all of these is the _undocumented_ nature of the
> assumptions, which is certainly a bug, however those assumptions are not in
> themselves "unreasonable" as was claimed.

Maybe I should submit a counter-patch providing documentation.

> > If vtable isn't the first element in the structure, it follows a wild
> > pointer on error.

This could be fixed.

> Thank you. Both of these and the lack of documentation should have been
> spelled out in the original commit message as reasons for the removal.

> BTW your patch removes the logging on failure to allocate, which should
> either be fixed or called out in the commit message.

I don't think this is a good idea.

Ian.

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