[patch] ns32k gas/bfd cleanup

[Ian Dall]

Matt Thomas writes:
 > At 07:45 AM 7/28/2002, Ian Dall wrote:
 > [patch for displacement overflows]
 >
 > I strongly believe these should as_fatal errors since they result in
 > an incorrect object being generated.  When I was updating the VAX gas
 > for ELF, I changed a lot of uses of as_warn to as_fatal.  This was due
 > to the fact that a build would seemingly succeed but create non-functional
 > programs.  If there is a problem in assembling a program, I want gas
 > to fail so I correct it.

The guidelines in messages.c actually give truncating constants as
an example for as_warn! I think I agree, though that this makes little sense.
Probably what it should be is as_bad rather than as_fatal. That way
you get to see all such errors rather than just the first one.

Ian