From: David MacKenzie <djm@cygnus>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 23:09:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add more info about -warn-common
X-Git-Tag: gdb-4_18~17955
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cd4cca9bf5739bc6d2b850ca6e4489e87f0d421;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fbinutils.git

add more info about -warn-common
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diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index d2ce592..84f8973 100644
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -586,6 +586,8 @@ Warn when a common symbol is combined with another common symbol or with
 a symbol definition.  Unix linkers allow this somewhat sloppy practice,
 but linkers on some other operating systems do not.  This option allows
 you to find potential problems from combining global symbols.
+Unfortunately, some C libraries use this practice, so you may get some
+warnings about symbols in the libraries as well as in your programs.
 
 There are three kinds of global symbols, illustrated here by C examples: