From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
To: chris@lslsun.epfl.ch (Christian Iseli)
Cc: amylaar@cygnus.co.uk, jfc@mit.edu, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: debug_reload output
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:01:00 -0000
Message-id: <199710141547.QAA00490@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
References: <199710141534.RAA21975@lslsun17.epfl.ch>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00539.html

> Ok, then how about having a global variable debug_reload_stream initialized
> to stderr, instead of the parameter?  Does this sound like a better proposition?

This solves the practical problems, but why do you prefer adding a new global
variable to adding a new function?  In general, adding global variables
has a higher impact on subsequent maintenance than adding a new simple
function.