[PATCH 1/2] gas/as.c: print input and output details when error
Robert Yang
liezhi.yang@windriver.com
Thu Aug 9 09:30:00 GMT 2018
On 08/09/2018 05:22 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I just realized that binutils maybe used on other platforms, so I
will avoid print that. Only print:
"The input '%s' and output '%s' have the same inode"
Should be enough. V2 is coming.
// Robert
>
> Andreas.
>
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