Hello, so it seems as if it would be best if I post that to the binutils mailing list. Agreed?
WR On Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:57, Robert Dewar wrote: >> Michael Veksler wrote: >> > It sounds as if the symbol is still "maximum" and it is annotated with >> > its type (something like debug information). I should be possible to >> > hack the linker to emit a warning for symbols with conflicting debug >> > information. >> >> Nice idea! >> >> > This is the wrong list for linker enhancements. You should look for >> > binutils mailing lists. However "collect2" which is part of gcc and is >> > called before the linker (for C++)- could also detect this and give >> > the same warning. I would bet that collect2 is the wrong place for >> > this enhancement because it will work only for C++, not for C. >> >> If the linker did this, then it would even work across languages, >> e.g. importing a C symbol from an Ada unit, and vice versa. >> >> > Michael
