division in ld scripts

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"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.

Ian