[ELF] Linkerscript: support assignment outside SECTIONS
We only support assignments inside SECTIONS, but this does not match
the behavior of GNU linker which also allows them outside SECTIONS.
The only restriction on assignments outside SECTIONS is that they
cannot reference . (they have to be absolute expressions).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23598
llvm-svn: 279033
diff --git a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
index 4d8cec0..922c7da 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
@@ -655,6 +655,8 @@
StringRef Tok = next();
if (Handler Fn = Cmd.lookup(Tok))
(this->*Fn)();
+ else if (SymbolAssignment *Cmd = readProvideOrAssignment(Tok))
+ Opt.Commands.emplace_back(Cmd);
else
setError("unknown directive: " + Tok);
}