Re: -Wlto-type-mismatch warning in error()

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 01:48:23AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Making the symbols provided by install-info.c weak might work,
> so one idea is that when a program uses Gnulib, all of the global
> symbols from the program (excluding Gnulib) should be marked as weak
> in produced object files, so that Gnulib code preferentially uses
> code from glibc or other libraries.  I have no idea what would be
> needed to achieve this or what other implications there might be.
> (This won't help if the symbol is weak in those libraries too, though.)

On second thought this would be a bad idea in case the program uses
symbols that clash with library symbols that are marked weak.