Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> writes: > Also, the point of GNULIB_POSIXCHECK was not whether other compilers > can detect the problem, so much as making it easy for a random > developer on Linux to quickly determine if they are using something > that merely happened to work because they were on Linux, but would > fail during porting to other platforms, without having to have access > to the other platforms. If other compilers can be taught to issue a > similar warning - great. But that is not the driving use case of why > we introduced the GL_LINK_WARNING in the first place.
Indeed -- so the link-warning stuff should be the least complex solution that works for typical maintainers. The gcc attributes approach seems appropriate. > Indeed. So now that I have your vote of confidence, I'll probably > start working on a proposal to implement my option 4, by revamping > GNULIB_POSIXCHECK to use attributes rather than link warnings. Thanks! /Simon
