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Re: Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 01 Aug 2003 05:07:51 -0300
- Subject: Re: Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <87n0et3joh.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
On Aug 1, 2003, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> This warning message ultimately comes from glibc, via a .gnu.warning
> section. May I suggest that all such messages be modifed to have
> "warning: " at the beginning, so it is obvious that they are not
> errors?
Since the section name is .gnu.warning (and not
.gnu.linker-diagnostic), perhaps the linker should prepend `warning:'
to any such messages?
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