[tiemann@sun.com: ld.c error reporting]

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From: rms
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 23:01

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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 13:19:39 PDT
From: tiemann@sun.com (Michael Tiemann)
To: rms@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
Subject: ld.c error reporting
Reply-To: tiemann@lurch.stanford.edu

When a file is compiled without symbols, undefined symbol error
messages should only be printed once per file.  The following
transcript shows the current behavior.  The 2..n messages give no more
information than the first.

teacake% g++ -B./ wombat.cc
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: Undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc referenced from text segment
wombat.o: More undefined symbol _sputs__9streambufPCc refs follow

Michael

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