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Re: Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:42:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.
- References: <87n0et3joh.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com><3F2A854E.8080507@kegel.com>
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 has happened.
zw