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Re: [PATCH 1/2] gas/as.c: print input and output details when error

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Robert Yang <liezhi dot yang at windriver dot com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:22:44 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gas/as.c: print input and output details when error
References: <1533786549-1931-1-git-send-email-liezhi.yang@windriver.com> <5B6BF04D02000078001DC50E@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com> <9779bfc8-3b8d-c66e-efe3-4e63cd035857@windriver.com>

On Aug 09 2018, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:

> as_fatal (_("The input '%s' and output '%s' have the same inode %ld"),
>            argv[i],  sib.st_ino, saved_out_file_name))

st_ino is an opaque, filesystem internal number.  I have a hard time
figuring out why it would ever be useful to know.  Also, the correct
format to print it is very platform dependent, and likely incompatible
with %ld.

Andreas.

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