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Re: [PATCH][LTO] Fix PR40902, ignore toplevel qualifiers when merging symbols
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:23, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> I'll add a FIXME before committing. ÂI think we should unconditionally
> warn for things that might cause problems later, like when we fail
> to merge two symbols - that might confuse alias analysis enough to
> later miscompile things.
Agreed.
>ÂFor the rest we should either invent a
> new warning class or try to find an existing suitable one - but
> warning unconditionally here seems bogus to me (think of -Werror
> builds that now fail with -flto but didn't w/o -flto).
Of course, I don't think we should ever warn unconditionally during
LTO processing.
Diego.