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Re: [PATCH] Prune BFD warnings for unknown GNU properties
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:03:23 +0930
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prune BFD warnings for unknown GNU properties
- References: <20180816164810.GA25806@intel.com>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:48:10AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> When glibc is enabled with the new GNU_PROPERTY_X86_XXX bits:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/x86-64-abi/-D05GQ3kWrA
>
> BFD will issue an unknown GNU property warning like
>
> warning: tmpdir/ld1: unsupported GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE (5) type: 0xc0010001
>
> and ignore such GNU properties. This patch adds prune_warnings_property
> to prune such warnings.
So why not recognize that particular property, handle it
appropriately, and not warn?
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM