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

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Fri Aug 1 16:49:00 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 happened a while time ago.

-- Gaby



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