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README: Document that local+global is not 100% accurate
authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:46:58 +0000 (18:46 +0000)
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:35:16 +0000 (11:35 +0000)
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
README

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@@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ suppressed with the &:warn directive.  The warning tags are:
        The same VARNAME was used both with and without an & prefix.
        This can be confusing.  Also, if you avoid this then you will
        get a warning iff you accidentally leave off a needed &.
+       The generation of this warning depends on scanning your
+       makefile for things that look like variable references, which
+       subdirmk does not do completely perfectly.  Exciting make
+       syntax may evade this warning, or require suppressions.
        (You can suppress this warning for a particular VARNAME with
        the &:local+global directive.)