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allow INCLUDE in more places

Robert Norton rnorton@broadcom.com
Thu Jul 3 12:15:00 GMT 2008 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: binutils-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:binutils-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Sidwell
> Sent: 03 July 2008 13:10
> To: binutils
> Subject: allow INCLUDE in more places
> 
> I got stuck trying to INCLUDE linker fragments because 
> INCLUDE is currently only 
> allowed at the top level.  This patch adds grammar fragments 
> to allow INCLUDE 
> inside MEMORY and SECTIONS elements, and also inside output 
> section directives.
> 
> The change to the lexer to recognize INCLUDE inside 
> expressions is necessary 
> because the MEMORY elements are all parsed as EXPRESSIONS and 
> we never return to 
>   SCRIPT lexing (note the lack of element terminators).
> 
> With this patch I'm able to create somewhat more flexible 
> linker scripts.
> 
> ok?
> 
> nathan
> -- 
> Nathan Sidwell    ::   http://www.codesourcery.com   ::       
>   CodeSourcery

I certainly support the intent of this patch. We currently use CPP to
pre-processes linker scripts before using them and this could save us
the hassle.

Robert
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