Re: Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables

[Wolfgang Roemer <w dot r dot a dot roemer at t-online dot de>]

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