On Thursday, 20 March 2025 08:52:36 Pacific Daylight Time Sebastian Wittmeier
via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Generally, you also should describe, why it is such a bad thing, if the
> linker finds out that symbols are missing. If it is just the error message,
> which often does not refer well to the line of code calling the function,
> perhaps that can be changed.

Linkers can and do print out the line number if there's debug information
available.

int f();
int main() { f(); }

$ gcc main.c
main.c:(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `f'
$ gcc -g main.c
/tmp/main.c:2:(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `f'

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