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Re: division in ld scripts
>>> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> 09.09.09 16:48 >>>
>"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
>
>> Is it known/intended/documented that using the division operator (/) in
>> ld scripts requires a blank to follow, at least in some cases (see below)?
>> All other operators seem to behave as expected (apart from the missing
>> but unlikely to be needed ^), while / results in a "syntax error" failure.
>
>The linker language is kind of a mess. The problem here is that '/' can
>appear in a file name, so the whole string gets picked up as a file name
>rather than a number. I think it would be pretty hard to change without
>breaking existing scripts.
But why would that "can appear in a file name" argument not also apply
to the other operators? Especially '-' shouldn't be that uncommon, albeit
perhaps not at the beginning of a file name.
Jan