Linker warning messages should have the word 'warning' in them.

[Zack Weinberg]

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

>> Since the section name is .gnu.warning (and not
>> .gnu.linker-diagnostic), perhaps the linker should prepend `warning:'
>> to any such messages?
>
> I think that makes the most sense.  If ld were to have something like
> -Werror, then it would be inappropriate for the messages to say "warning:"
> when they were in fact aborting the ld run.  Since ld is in charge of
> whether or not the message is fatal, ld should be in charge of saying so.

Good point.  I'll bring this up to the binutils folks.

zw