[PATCH, COMMIT]: Allow ^ and ! inside linker scripts regexps

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 16:27:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>  I am applying the patch below to allow the caret (^) and exclamation
>  point (!) characters to be used inside linker script regular
>  expressions.  The code in fnmatch() (in libiberty) supports them, but
>  the linker's parser was not accepting them.  Thus expressions like:
>
>    .text: { *(.text.[^.]* )
>
>  would not work.
>
> ld/ChangeLog
> 2010-08-31  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
>        * ldlex.l (WILDCHAR): Add the caret and exclamation point
>        characters, so that they can be used inside regexps.
>

Could you please add some testcases to show how they should work?

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.



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