Re: [AD] al_register_trace_handler resurrection

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 01:57:09 +0100, Michał Cichoń <michcic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I revived my code which was responsible for redirecting errors logged
> by Allegro to my console. I was using al_register_trace_handler() to
> do that, but after an update I notice it was removed:
> 
> http://svn.tomasu.org/index.cgi/allegro/revision/?rev=13980
> 
> It was useful because after registering handler before initialization
> (defined behavior) Allegro.log was not created. All messages was
> redirected to handler, so I forwarded them into my console. As result
> one log file was created with engine messages followed by Allegro
> error messages.
> 
> Now this functionality is gone and I'm wondering if there is a change
> of restoring it, because it was handy.

You should be able to add al_register_trace_handler.  The tricky part
about making log messages atomic was if users could call al_trace
directly, so you probably don't want to add that again.

Peter