warning messages from common symbol alignment from elflink.h revision1.212

[Robert Andre]

I am linking object files built using the lahey-fujitsu fortran compiler on 
i386 linux.  In 
going from binutils-2.13 to binutils-2.14, the warning messages listed below 
have 
appeared which seems to come from an addition by nickc to elflink.h, revision 
1.212 April 14,2003.  
The code appears to run ok so I have a couple of questions,
  1) What do these messages mean?  The symbols refer to the names of named 
common blocks.
  2) If they are innocuous can they be turned off since they are a distraction 
when linking 
      hundreds of executables with lots of commons.

thanks,

rob andre
PPPL

address@hidden ~/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new -m elf_i386 -dynamic-linker 
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/crti.o 
-Qy /usr/local/lff95/bin/../lib/fj90rt0.o 
-o/work/transp/sporadic-E/tmp/exe/nbcopy obj/nbcopy/nbcopy.o lib/ureadsub.a 
lib/vaxonly.a
lib/sgdummy.a lib/portlib.a /usr/local/lib/elvis.a -L/usr/local/mdsplus/lib 
-lMdsLib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lff95/lib -lfftw -lnetcdf 
-llapack -L/usr/local/superlu/lib -lsuperlu -lblas -lreadline -lhistory 
-L/usr/lib/termcap 
-ltermcap /work/transp/Linux_i686/local/lib/generic_dummy.a 
-L/usr/local/lff95/bin/../lib -lfj9i6 -lfj9f6 -lfj9e6 -lfccx86_6a -lc -lm 
/usr/lib/crtn.o
/home/randre/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol 
`urdprdef_' in lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o) is smaller than 8 in 
lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o)
/home/randre/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol 
`urdprdef_' in lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o) is smaller than 8 in 
lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o)
/home/randre/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol 
`urdprdef_' in lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o) is smaller than 8 in 
lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o)
/home/randre/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol 
`urdprdef_' in lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o) is smaller than 8 in 
lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o)
/home/randre/GNU/binutils-2.14/ld/ld-new: Warning: alignment 4 of symbol 
`urdprdef_' in lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o) is smaller than 8 in 
lib/ureadsub.a(usinit.o)
... and so on ...