Suppressing unresolved symbol errors when a library couldn't be found
Cary Coutant
ccoutant@google.com
Thu Jun 26 20:36:00 GMT 2014
I've received a request for a change to gold that would suppress the
hundreds of useless unresolved symbol errors that follow an error for
a missing library (as all the unresolved symbols would have been
resolved by the missing library).
It looks like Gnu ld works like this already -- the link terminates
before printing any unresolved symbol errors. (But if there are
multiple files that can't be found, it does print them all before
exiting.)
Any objections to changing gold so that the unresolved symbol errors
don't get printed? Does Gnu simply exit before getting that far, or
does it suppress the unresolved symbol errors?
-cary
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