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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/link: Misc cleanup
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:38:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f898001f-3cf2-699d-6bd6-cb527c87c863@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efda4435-f685-7830-4f58-1b62d062fab5@arm.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-19 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-19 20:11 [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] xen/link: Fixes and improvements to Xen's linking Andrew Cooper
2019-06-19 20:11 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen/link: Cope with .rodata.cst* sections Andrew Cooper
2019-06-19 21:18   ` Julien Grall
2019-06-20  8:26     ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-06-21  9:05   ` Jan Beulich
2019-06-19 20:11 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen/link: Link .data.schedulers and CONSTRUCTERS in more appropriate locations Andrew Cooper
2019-06-19 21:21   ` Julien Grall
2019-06-20  8:40   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-06-20 12:34     ` Andrew Cooper
2019-06-21  9:14   ` Jan Beulich
2019-06-19 20:11 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen/link: Fold .data.read_mostly into .data Andrew Cooper
2019-06-19 21:28   ` Julien Grall
2019-06-19 21:48     ` Andrew Cooper
2019-06-20 12:24       ` Julien Grall
2019-06-21  9:24   ` Jan Beulich
2019-06-19 20:11 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xen/link: Misc cleanup Andrew Cooper
2019-06-19 21:30   ` Julien Grall
2019-06-19 21:38     ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2019-06-20 12:29       ` Julien Grall
2019-06-20  8:43   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-06-21  9:34   ` Jan Beulich

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