I tried to use gold instead of the standard GNU ld in our SW build system. I
stumbled over the fact that gold gives me a script parse error for a ".a" script
file containing INPUT().
Here is a stripped down example to reproduce the problem:
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
}
$ gcc -o hello.o -c hello.c
$ ld -r -o hello.a hello.o
$ (echo 'INPUT('; echo hello.a; echo ')') >final.a
$ cat final.a
INPUT (
hello.a
)
GNU ld:
$ ld -o final final.a
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000008048074
hello.a: In function `main':
(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `puts'
Gold:
$ build/gold/ld-new -o final final.a
build/gold/ld-new: final.a:1:1: syntax error, unexpected INPUT, expecting $end
build/gold/ld-new: final.a: not an object or archive
$ build/gold/ld-new -o final --script final.a
build/gold/ld-new: final.a:1:1: syntax error, unexpected INPUT, expecting $end
build/gold/ld-new: unable to parse script file final.a
I know that I could replace this example with a @-file but we use at least one
commercial tool that feeds the linker with an input file that contains INPUT().
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Summary: Script parse error on INPUT ( )
Product: binutils
Version: 2.19
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: gold
AssignedTo: ian at airs dot com
ReportedBy: stefan dot becker at nokia dot com
CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
GCC host triplet: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7088
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