Add support for the ASCII directive inside linker scripts.

 * ldlex.l: Add ASCII token.
 * ldgram.y: Add parsing of the ASCII command.
 * ldlang.c (lang_add_string): Add maximum size parameter.  Move escape character handling code into separate function.
 * ldlang.h (lang_add_string): Update prototype.
 * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
 * ld.texi (Output Section Data): Document the new directives.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/asciz.t: Adjust to work on more architectures and to test more aspects of the ASCIZ directive.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/asciz.d: Adjust to match the changes to the test linker script.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/ascii.d: New test driver.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/ascii.s: New test assembler source.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/ascii.t: New test script.
 * testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp: Run the new test.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ld/ldlex.l b/ld/ldlex.l
index 32336cf..910e7ea 100644
--- a/ld/ldlex.l
+++ b/ld/ldlex.l
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ V_IDENTIFIER [*?.$_a-zA-Z\[\]\-\!\^\\]([*?.$_a-zA-Z0-9\[\]\-\!\^\\]|::)*
 <WILD>"LONG"				{ RTOKEN(LONG); }
 <WILD>"SHORT"				{ RTOKEN(SHORT); }
 <WILD>"BYTE"				{ RTOKEN(BYTE); }
+<WILD>"ASCII"				{ RTOKEN(ASCII); }
 <WILD>"ASCIZ"				{ RTOKEN(ASCIZ); }
 <SCRIPT>"NOFLOAT"			{ RTOKEN(NOFLOAT); }
 <SCRIPT,EXPRESSION>"NOCROSSREFS"	{ RTOKEN(NOCROSSREFS); }