[patch gas]: Add 'e' for coff targets as section-specifier

[Kai Tietz]

2011/9/28 Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>:
>>>> On 27.09.11 at 20:35, Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ src/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/section-exclude.d
>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
>> +#objdump: -h
>> +#name: section exclude
>> +
>> +# Test that 'e' works in .section directives.
>> +
>> +.*: .*
>> +
>> +Sections:
>> +Idx Name          *Size      *VMA       *LMA       *File off  *Algn
>> +  3 .foo1         00000004  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  000000b4
>> 2**2
>> +                  CONTENTS, EXCLUDE
>> +  0 \.text         0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  2\*\*[24]
>> +.*
>> +  1 \.data         0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  2\*\*[24]
>> +.*
>> +  2 \.bss          0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  2\*\*[24]
>> +.*
>> +  3 \.foo1         0*0000004  0*0000000  0*0000000  0*0000000  2\*\*[24]
>> +.*CONTENS, EXCLUDE
>> +.*
>
> This new test causes
>
> Running /home/jbeulich/cpp/binutils/mainline-cvs/2011-09-28/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp ...
> ERROR: tcl error sourcing /home/jbeulich/cpp/binutils/mainline-cvs/2011-09-28/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp.
> ERROR: couldn't compile regular expression pattern: quantifier operand invalid
>    while executing
> "regexp "^$line_bx$" "$line_a""
>    (procedure "regexp_diff" line 106)
>    invoked from within
> "regexp_diff "dump.out" "${dumpfile}" $regexp_subst"
>    (procedure "run_dump_test" line 329)
>    invoked from within
> "run_dump_test "section-exclude""
>    (file "/home/jbeulich/cpp/binutils/mainline-cvs/2011-09-28/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp" line 38)
>    invoked from within
> "source /home/jbeulich/cpp/binutils/mainline-cvs/2011-09-28/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp"
>    ("uplevel" body line 1)
>    invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 source /home/jbeulich/cpp/binutils/mainline-cvs/2011-09-28/gas/testsuite/gas/pe/pe.exp"
>    invoked from within
> "catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name""
>
> on an older system of mine.
>
> Jan

Not sure what you are seeing here.  I can't reproduce this.  For what
target you are building here?

Regards,
Kai