[llvm-dev] Linking Linux kernel with LLD

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev]

Sean,

So as you noticed that linker script tokenization rule is not very trivial
-- it is context sensitive. The current lexer is extremely simple and
almost always works well. Improving "almost always" to "perfect" is not
high priority because we have many more high priority things, but I'm fine
if someone improves it. If you are interested, please take it. Or maybe
I'll take a look at it. It shouldn't be hard. It's probably just a half day
work.

As far as I know, the grammar is LL(1), so it needs only one push-back
buffer. Handling INCLUDE directive can be a bit tricky though.

Maybe we should rename ScriptParserBase ScriptLexer.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hmm..., the crux of not being able to lex arithmetic expressions seems to
> > be due to lack of context sensitivity. E.g. consider `foo*bar`. Could be
> a
> > multiplication, or could be a glob pattern.
> >
> > Looking at the code more closely, adding context sensitivity wouldn't be
> > that hard. In fact, our ScriptParserBase class is actually a lexer (look
> at
> > the interface; it is a lexer's interface). It shouldn't be hard to change
> > from an up-front tokenization to a more normal lexer approach of scanning
> > the text for each call that wants the next token. Roughly speaking, just
> > take the body of the for loop inside ScriptParserBase::tokenize and add a
> > helper which does that on the fly and is called by consume/next/etc.
> > Instead of an index into a token vector, just keep a `const char *`
> pointer
> > that we advance.
> >
> > Once that is done, we can easily add a `nextArithmeticToken` or something
> > like that which just lexes with different rules.
>
> I like that idea. I first thought of always having '*' as a token, but
> then space has to be a token, which is an incredible pain.
>
> I then thought of having a "setLexMode" method, but the lex mode can
> always be implicit from where we are in the parser. The parser should
> always know if it should call next or nextArithmetic.
>
> And I agree we should probably implement this. Even if it is not common,
> it looks pretty silly to not be able to handle 2*5.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
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