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Re: [PATCH] Only warn when missing MIPS LO16 are encountered
- From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- To: ths at networkno dot de
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:20:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only warn when missing MIPS LO16 are encountered
- References: <20070326103609.GC23564@networkno.de>
>>>>> "Thiemo" == Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> writes:
Thiemo> Hello All, I applied the appended patch, it downgrades
Thiemo> missing LO16 relocations from an error to a warning. This
Thiemo> unbreaks builds with existing compilers but still gives gcc
Thiemo> developers a better chance to find and fix the problematic
Thiemo> bits in the optimizer.
Warnings are still a problem when you're using the "warnings are
errors" principle, as we and others do.
Does this "missing" LO16 relocation cause any problem? If not, why
should there be a warning, and for that matter, why should this be
called "problematic bits in the optimizer"?
paul