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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Huawei Inc.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# make uses non-literal format strings in a few places.
+# This has been verified to be harmless in 4.3
+#
+# Removing -Werror=format-nonliteral here allows us to use
+# -Werror=format-nonliteral globally in OPTIMIZE_FOR=security mode
+# while keeping make building.
+
+TARGET_CFLAGS_remove = "-Werror=format-nonliteral"