msg: set an explicit overflow message

So client API users don't have to worry about this specifically.

Also document the overflow case. (Not sure if we really need to do
this; maybe it'd be better not to, since this just adds more noise
to the docs.)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/common/msg.c b/common/msg.c
index 866cae5c9d..21fae360be 100644
--- a/common/msg.c
+++ b/common/msg.c
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static void write_msg_to_buffers(struct mp_log *log, int lev, char *text)
                 *entry = (struct mp_log_buffer_entry) {
                     .prefix = "overflow",
                     .level = MSGL_FATAL,
-                    .text = "",
+                    .text = "log message buffer overflow\n",
                 };
             }
             mp_ring_write(buffer->ring, (unsigned char *)&entry, sizeof(entry));