On 19/06/2019 22:30, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/19/19 9:11 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> * Drop .gnu.warning. Xen, not being a library, has no need for
>> __attribute__((__warning__("str"))) and isn't liable to ever gain
>> such
>> annotations for link time warnings.
>
> What if this is introduced?
Then attempting to link Xen as a library against another object file
won't emit the custom linker warning.
Its main use is for phase-out of problematic API's, but for Xen (and
other standalone binaries) we do that by replacing problematic functions
entirely.
> How do we catch it?
Code review?
~Andrew
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