From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17530 invoked by alias); 19 Jun 2002 15:32:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17497 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2002 15:32:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dirf.bris.ac.uk) (137.222.10.72) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2002 15:32:39 -0000 Received: from cs.bris.ac.uk (actually host lunaleka.cs.bris.ac.uk) by dirf.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:32:19 +0100 Received: from manao.cs.bris.ac.uk (manao [137.222.102.67]) by cs.bris.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29044; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:30:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from acm.org by manao.cs.bris.ac.uk (8.9.3) id QAA05367; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:30:28 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3D10A393.A09C6E1D@acm.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:32:00 -0000 From: Nathan Sidwell Reply-To: nathan@compsci.bristol.ac.uk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas J Amato CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Stray characters in .o files.... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00178.txt.bz2 Thomas J Amato wrote: > I'm hoping that someone has seem this. I am getting a large number of > errors when I go to link my test program (below is a snippet): > > .sun_gcc_dbg/test_harness.o:222:107: warning: null character(s) ignored > .sun_gcc_dbg/test_harness.o:222:110: warning: null character(s) ignored I'd guess that the .o file is not being recognized for what it is, and it is being processed as source of some kind. 1) How are you invoking the linker? 2) What does the -v (verbose) flag tell you? nathan -- Dr Nathan Sidwell :: Computer Science Department :: Bristol University The voices in my head told me to say this nathan@acm.org http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~nathan/ nathan@cs.bris.ac.uk