Re: warnings where errors are appropiate

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:04:22PM +0100, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> 
> I would like to report the following defect found in :
> 
> GNU assembler 2.11.92.0.10 (SuSE)
> Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
> This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-suse-linux'.
> 
> The following line
> 
>         .section forth progbits
> leads to a warning
> 
> Warning : rest of line ignored. First ignored character is 'p'.
> 
> If as apparently doesn't understand a part of the line, it cannot
> judge the severity of the error, and must assume the worst.
> In the above case it is of absolute severity, a facility is missing
> that allows for no work around.

In addition I recommend you read the excellent documentation that would
come with a recent version of the linker, as the syntax is ".section
forth, @progbits".

You're also incorrect about an i486-suse-linux assembler not supporting
ELF, unless SuSE did some truly stupid things to the assembler around
that time; I doubt they did.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer