From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9985 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2006 15:10:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 9975 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2006 15:10:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:10:53 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-238-176.inter.net.il [84.228.238.176]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id EXK26852 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:10:44 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:10:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andreas Schwab CC: brobecker@adacore.com, drow@false.org, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:46:02 +0200) Subject: Re: [rfc] Clarify shared library warning Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20061010145213.GA20993@nevyn.them.org> <20061010213438.GC1059@adacore.com> <20061011133756.GB25164@nevyn.them.org> <9704.82.92.89.47.1160598745.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <20061011203928.GA9409@nevyn.them.org> <20061012055231.GG1059@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00153.txt.bz2 > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Joel Brobecker , drow@false.org, > mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:46:02 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > How about this, then: > > > > warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libc.so.6" is not at the expected address > > (wrong library or library version mismatch?) > > Isn't "wrong library" a superset of "library version mismatch"? It is, but messages to users don't need such mathematical rigour. I imagine some users won't immediately realize that ``wrong library'' might mean libc.so.6 instead of libc.so.7; ``version mismatch'' goes a long way towards spelling out that possibility, IMO.