Bug 621742 - linker script doesn't allow section name patterns with caret symbol (^)
Summary: linker script doesn't allow section name patterns with caret symbol (^)
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: binutils
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Nick Clifton
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Reported: 2010-08-06 01:59 UTC by Denys Vlasenko
Modified: 2015-02-18 11:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-18 11:05:31 UTC
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Description Denys Vlasenko 2010-08-06 01:59:43 UTC
In ld linker script I need to collect all sections with names like .text.foo, where foo itself does not start with the dot.

Ideally, the following rule would do it:


.text: { *(.text.[^.]* )

but ld does not allow [^...] glob pattern element. So I was using

.text: { *(.text.[A-Za-z0-9_$]* )

hoping that this set of chars is covering all section names generated by gcc, as and ld.

But James Bottomley says that on parisc, ld sometimes generates names with caret (^) in them. So I added caret too:

.text: { *(.text.[A-Za-z0-9_$^]* )

This does not work. I'm getting "ignoring invalid character '^' in script" error message from linker. Apparently, caret is not allowed in section name patterns.

The message comes from binutils-2.20.1/ld/ldlex.l:460

<SCRIPT,MRI,VERS_START,VERS_SCRIPT,VERS_NODE>.  lex_warn_invalid (" in script", yytext);

I think this can be fixed by adding caret to WILDCHAR definition in the same file, and regenerating ldlex.c from it. Currently the definition is

WILDCHAR        [_a-zA-Z0-9\/\.\-\_\+\=\$\:\[\]\\\,\~\?\*]

and I propose to change it to

WILDCHAR        [_a-zA-Z0-9\/\.\-\_\+\=\$\:\[\]\\\,\~\?\*\^]

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2010-08-06 02:09:30 UTC
Oops.. I made a mistake in the first directive example, and then cut-n-pasted it, so all examples have the same mistake...

instead of

.text: { *(.text.[^.]* )

it should be

.text: { *(.text.[^.]*) }

Comment 2 Andreas Schwab 2010-08-09 12:46:40 UTC
The right way to negate a character class is to use ! as the first character (see glob(7)).

Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2010-08-12 14:12:44 UTC
Thanks Andreas, I did not know that.

Unfortunately, the [!foo] construct seems to be rejected:

I performed the following test:

Created a test module test.c:

void __attribute__((section(".text..f"))) f() {}
void __attribute__((section(".text.g"))) g() {}

Produced test.o:

$ gcc -c test.c

"Incrementally linked" it into a test1.o, adding --verbose to recover the internal linker script:

$ ld -r -o test1.o test.o --verbose >test.lds

Edited test.lds: removed everything except linker script, and added

.text.nodot : { *(.text.[!.]*) }

just before existing ".text: ...." rule.

When I try to use the script, ld errors out:

$ ld -r -o test1.o test.o -T test.lds
ld:test.lds:44: syntax error

Same happens with

.text.nodot : { *(.text.[!A-Z]*) }

rule, so it's not because of the dot inside [].

.text.nodot : { *(.text.[.]*) }

works, thus I conclude that it's [!foo] construct that is not supported.

$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.20.51.0.2-20.fc13 20091009

Comment 4 Nick Clifton 2010-08-20 15:15:34 UTC
Hi Denys,

  Thanks for reporting this bug.  You were right the caret character ought to be able to invert the sense of the match.  Andreas was also correct in that the exclamation point character should have been able to do the same thing.  In fact *both* characters ought to be added to the WILDCHAR definition and this is exactly what I have done with the latest rawhide binutils rpm (binutils-2.20.51.0.10-3.fc15).

  Incidentally there is another way to solve the original problem if you do not mind the sections containing two successive period characters appearing before the sections containing only single period characters.  Like this:

  .text : { *(*.text) *(.text..*) }
  .text.nodot : { *(.text.*) }

Cheers
  Nick Clifton

Comment 5 Denys Vlasenko 2010-08-31 15:52:57 UTC
Thanks!

Comment 6 Denys Vlasenko 2010-09-10 15:36:05 UTC
> In
> fact *both* characters ought to be added to the WILDCHAR definition and this is
> exactly what I have done with the latest rawhide binutils rpm
> (binutils-2.20.51.0.10-3.fc15).

Will it go into next upstream release too?

Comment 7 Nick Clifton 2010-09-10 16:03:09 UTC
Yes.

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 20:34:50 UTC
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