[PATCH] Prune BFD warnings for unknown GNU properties

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 02:33:00 GMT 2018


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?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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