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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT 3.14p and Red Hat 7.2
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> <snip>> a-adaint.o: In function `__gnat_tmp_name':
>> a-adaint.o(.text+0x42c): the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use
>> `mkstemp'
>> g-os_lib.o: In function `gnat__os_lib__create_temp_file':
>> g-os_lib.o(.text+0x2f1): the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use
>> `mkstemp'
>
> These are just warnings about potential security problems. They should
> be ignored.

The first warning is issued because the code *does* contain a security
problem (your Ada application will be affected only if it uses
temporary files, though). Ignoring it won't make it go away. ;-)