Re: PR/40695 CVS commit: src

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/40695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: PR/40695 CVS commit: src
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:03:21 +0200

 On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > >  Who is helped by the linker warning?  Presumably people running old code
 > >  don't care whether or not NAN was a compile time constant, as long as it
 > >  works.
 > 
 > You don't get the warning unless you re-link your app - in which case
 > it would be better to recompile and the warning would be gone. And
 > it's only a warning anyway.
 
 That makes sense; thanks.  I had incorrectly thought that linker
 warnings were also displayed when shared libraries were loaded at run
 time.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)