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title="NEW --- - Assigning to location counter without a space gives confusing error"
href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31128">31128</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Assigning to location counter without a space gives confusing error
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<th>Product</th>
<td>lld
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>ELF
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>arichardson.kde@gmail.com
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<pre>in the following condensed linker script I get a confusing error message:
SECTIONS
{
/* ...*/
.= __code_body__;
/*...*/
}
Results in:
/home/alr48/cheri/output/sdk256/bin/cheri-unknown-freebsd-ld: error:
/..../sandbox.ld:66: : expected, but got ;
/home/alr48/cheri/output/sdk256/bin/cheri-unknown-freebsd-ld: error:
/..../sandbox.ld:66: .= __code_body__;
/home/alr48/cheri/output/sdk256/bin/cheri-unknown-freebsd-ld: error:
/..../sandbox.ld:66: ^
LLD will accept this script only after adding a space between '.' and '='
whereas GNU ld accepts this without complaining.
I am not sure if the space is required (all I can see is
<a href="https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Simple-Assignments.html#Simple-Assignments">https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Simple-Assignments.html#Simple-Assignments</a>
where there is no mention of spaces being required). In any case, a less
confusing error message would be great.</pre>
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