Landing: 44fab92685fd
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils/ld
Date
2026-08-05
Author
"H.J. Lu" <hjl@sourceware.org>
Commit
44fab92685fd1f4bc02cc6668237883ed0d9789d
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- Fix linker error reporting for fatal errors
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- Ensures fatal linker errors are reported as errors, not warnings.
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- "H.J. Lu" <hjl@sourceware.org>
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- • binutils
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- • bugfix
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- 2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
The GNU linker’s fatal function has been corrected to ensure that fatal errors are always treated as errors by the vfinfo reporting mechanism. Previously, a bug caused these critical messages to be misinterpreted as warnings, potentially obscuring their severity to the user. This change ensures fatal errors are properly flagged and exit with status 1.