[Bug ld/609] New: --fatal-warnings behaves badly with any other printing option

[Tomer dot Levi at nsc dot com]

The linker's --fatal-warnings option behaves badly when invoked with any other 
printing option (e.g., --verbose) and especially with tracing (--trace). It's 
quite easy to see why:
Almost all printing (warnings, but also tracing and verbosing) is done 
using 'info_msg' function, which then calls 'vfinfo' to do the job. 'vfinfo' 
wrongly assumes it is called to print only warnings, thus if requested to 
treat warnings as errors (--fata-warnings is specified), don't create an 
executable (config.make_executable = FALSE). So 'ld --fatal-warnings --
verbose' will never create an executable (even if no warnings occured), and 
even won't tell the user about it. The behavior is different (and not in a 
better way) with '--fatal-warnings --trace', because of (uncleared) code 
in 'main' function that will pring the following message, even if no errors 
occured :"link errors found, deleting executable".
To reproduce the problem, take a simple "Hello, world" example and use the 
latest development linker to reproduce this problem.

-- 
           Summary: --fatal-warnings behaves badly with any other printing
                    option
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: Tomer dot Levi at nsc dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=609

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