SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2026
arm — Proposed
arm: remove stray backslash in warning message
Fixes a stray backslash in an ARM build warning message in binutils.
This patch corrects a stray backslash in an ARM-specific warning message within binutils’ BFD library. The error was introduced in 2004 and could potentially affect how warning messages are displayed or parsed. The fix is a minor correction to the error formatting string.
In Details
Fixes a syntax error in a printf-style format string used for a warning message in bfd/elf32-arm.c. The stray backslash likely affected message formatting or localization. This corrects an issue introduced by an older commit.
For Context
- binutils
- A set of programming tools for manipulating binary files, including the GNU Assembler (gas), GNU linker (ld), and the Binary File Descriptor library (BFD).
- BFD
- The Binary File Descriptor library, a crucial component of GNU Binutils that provides a common interface for reading and writing various object file formats.
- arm
- A family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, widely used in mobile devices and embedded systems.
- backslash
- A typographical character (\) often used in computing to escape special characters or denote directory separators.