I am holding back until I hear from Nick. His observation of "unexpected 
behavior" is different than mine. I need to compare notes with him first.

- Fariborz

On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Ted Kremenek wrote:

> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The diagnostic message should be sufficient for a typical user to have some 
>> idea of what is wrong. The current diagnostic does not meet this standard. 
>> If you explain in a bit more detail what the problem is, maybe someone will 
>> be able to come up with better diagnostic wording. In any case, diagnostic 
>> messages should not start with a capital letter.
> 
> Agreed.  Looking at the warning:
> 
>> arning: Use of __private_extern__ on tentative definition has unexpected 
>> behaviour - use
>>       __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) on extern declaration or 
>> definition instead [-Wprivate-extern]
>> __private_extern__ int xyz;
> 
> The "unexpected behaviour" (behavior is misspelled) is content free.  That's 
> the part that needs to be elaborated.
> 
> The "use  __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) on extern declaration or 
> definition instead " can be a note on the warning, which allows you to break 
> the warning up.  A FixIt would also be nice.

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