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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2023-11-21 11:30:03 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2023-11-21 11:30:03 +0000
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Fix: symbols eliminated by --gc-sections still trigger warnings for gnu.warning.SYM
PR 31067 Fix typo in previous delta: defined -> referenced.
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@@ -7547,12 +7547,12 @@ garbage collection or orphan handling.
The contents of any section whoes name starts with the prefix
@samp{.gnu.warning.} and then finishes with the name of a symbol is
treated in a similar fashion to the @samp{.gnu.warning} section, but
-only if the named symbol is defined. So for example the contents of a
-section called @samp{.gnu.warning.foo} will be displayed as warning
-message if, and only if, the symbol @samp{foo} is defined by one or
-more of the input files. This includes object files pulled in from
-static libraries, shared objects needed to complete the link and so
-on.
+only if the named symbol is referenced. So for example the contents
+of a section called @samp{.gnu.warning.foo} will be displayed as
+warning message if, and only if, the symbol @samp{foo} is referenced
+by one or more of the input files. This includes object files pulled
+in from static libraries, shared objects needed to complete the link
+and so on.
Note - because these warning messages are generated before the linker
performs garbage collection (if enabled) it is possible for a warning