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Re: Release 2.21.1 ?
On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while handling several breakages in linux-next kernel, it showed PR
> gas/12519 (see [1]) is somehow incomplete as it gives no pointer to
> the symbol name in case of an error.
> "Mention symbol name in non-constant .size expression." (see [2]) as a
> follow-up patch definitely helps to enlighten developer's where to dig
> into occuring problems.
> "Revert the last change on gas/elf/bad-size.err." (see [3]) is a fixup to [2].
>
> It would be nice to see [2] and [3] backported to 2.21-branch.
Why not.
Does it make sense to generate a warning instead of an error in 2.21.1 for backward bug-compatibility ?
Alan, what's your opinion ?
Tristan.