# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1322987725 18000
# Node ID 2c0765c14e4feb97ed9c4b2ecae7b602df107ee8
# Parent  6be49527e4cfaf69fd10e9d9e437ccde926869c5
eliminate unused error message buffer

* error.cc (error_message_buffer): Delete static variable.  Messages
were written to this std::ostringstream object, but the contents
were never used.
(verror): Delete code that initialized and wrote to
error_message_buffer.

diff -r 6be49527e4cf -r 2c0765c14e4f src/error.cc
--- a/src/error.cc	Sat Dec 03 21:57:49 2011 -0500
+++ b/src/error.cc	Sun Dec 04 03:35:25 2011 -0500
@@ -119,9 +119,6 @@
 // TRUE means warning messages are turned off.
 bool discard_warning_messages = false;
 
-// The message buffer.
-static std::ostringstream *error_message_buffer = 0;
-
 void
 reset_error_handler (void)
 {
@@ -263,16 +260,7 @@
         Vlast_error_stack = initialize_last_error_stack ();
     }
 
-  if (buffer_error_messages)
-    {
-      if (error_message_buffer)
-        msg_string = "error: " + msg_string;
-      else
-        error_message_buffer = new std::ostringstream ();
-
-      *error_message_buffer << msg_string;
-    }
-  else
+  if (! buffer_error_messages)
     {
       octave_diary << msg_string;
       os << msg_string;