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Re: ld i386 differences 2.10.2 / 2.12


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:36:38PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:47:54PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > When/if my build of current glibc completes sucessfully, I'll install
> > this patch.
> 
> Glad to hear it, I just started experiencing it on my Alpha too.
> This will go into the 2.12 branch, correct?

I'd like to leave it in trunk for a couple of days first.

> > In addition, there's a change to how duplicate warning symbols are
> > handled.  Previously, a duplicate would result in a chain of syms
> > warning -> warning -> real, which means iterating to reach the real
> > sym.  I can't see that allowing duplicates provides any useful purpose,
> > so we now just ignore them.
> 
> I do not follow.  Today we get:
> 
>   /usr/lib/libc.so: warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()
> 
> how will that change?

Not at all; it used to be possible to have multiple warnings assigned
to the same function, that's all.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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