[Bug gold/7088] New: Script parse error on INPUT ( )

[stefan dot becker at nokia dot com]

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().

-- 
           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

------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.