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| -rw-r--r-- | gas/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/as.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index f81ec12..e2984b5 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2020-03-06 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR 25572 + * as.c (main): Allow matching input and outputs when they are + not regular files. + 2020-03-06 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> * config/tc-i386.c (match_mem_size): Generalize broadcast special @@ -1290,7 +1290,13 @@ main (int argc, char ** argv) /* Different files may have the same inode number if they reside on different devices, so check the st_dev field as well. */ - && sib.st_dev == sob.st_dev) + && sib.st_dev == sob.st_dev + /* PR 25572: Only check regular files. Devices, sockets and so + on might actually work as both input and output. Plus there + is a use case for using /dev/null as both input and output + when checking for command line option support in a script: + as --foo /dev/null -o /dev/null; if $? then ... */ + && S_ISREG (sib.st_mode)) { const char *saved_out_file_name = out_file_name; |