determining output section type

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 21:48:27 GMT 2021


On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 02:11:15PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> So while implementing this workaround I stumbled on an inconsistency
> between ld's documentation and how wildcards actually work (and are used
> in linker scripts shipped with binutils itself).
> 
> ld/ld.texi [and
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Input-Section-Wildcards.html] says
> 
>   When a file name is matched with a wildcard, the wildcard characters
> will not match a ‘/’ character

Commit 68bbb9f788d0 in 2006 changed the behaviour.  You're the first
to notice the manual needs updating, apparently.  :-)  I'll delete
that paragraph.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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