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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR ld/12761: .gnu.warning.* doesn't work when building shared library
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinYypezaSgmKEVftDjpK5yKdS-TOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrvcx9xte0.fsf@coign.corp.google.com>

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> The difference is that the author of a shared library can call a
>>> function with a warning safely from another externally visible function
>>> which does not require a warning.
>>>
>>
>> How does linker know warning is from the author of a shared library.
>> A shared library may contain many 3rd party objects.
>
> Sure, but it's hardly the common case.
>

3rd party may be a team member or the warning may be written
by the same author many years ago.


-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-16 19:05 H.J. Lu
2011-05-17  1:51 ` Alan Modra
2011-05-17  6:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-05-17 13:12   ` H.J. Lu
2011-05-17 14:30     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-05-17 14:36       ` H.J. Lu
2011-05-17 15:02         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-05-17 15:05           ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2011-05-17 16:34             ` Ian Lance Taylor

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