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


On Aug  1, 2003, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> 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?

Since the section name is .gnu.warning (and not
.gnu.linker-diagnostic), perhaps the linker should prepend `warning:'
to any such messages?

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