Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 1 16:42:00 GMT 2003


Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:

> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> This warning message ultimately comes from glibc, via a .gnu.warning
>> section.  May I suggest that all such messages be modifed to have
>> "warning: " at the beginning, so it is obvious that they are not
>> errors?
>
> Conversely, all gcc error messages could start with "error: ".  Man,
> would that make grepping build script output for errors easier.
> Guess that'll never happen, though...

That has happened.

zw



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