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authorIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1996-08-01 17:10:52 +0000
committerIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1996-08-01 17:10:52 +0000
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* ld.texinfo (Section Placement): Improve the wording of the
wildcard documentation. Mention that wildcards are only searched for on the command line, not in the file system.
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@@ -1963,19 +1963,26 @@ input file's format.
@end table
In any place where you may use a specific file or section name, you may
-also use a wildcard pattern. The wildcard handling is similar to that
-used by the Unix shell. A @samp{*} character matches any number of
-characters. A @samp{?} character matches any single character. The
-sequence @samp{[@var{chars}]} will match a single instance of any of the
+also use a wildcard pattern. The linker handles wildcards much as the
+Unix shell does. A @samp{*} character matches any number of characters.
+A @samp{?} character matches any single character. The sequence
+@samp{[@var{chars}]} will match a single instance of any of the
@var{chars}; the @samp{-} character may be used to specify a range of
characters, as in @samp{[a-z]} to match any lower case letter. A
@samp{\} character may be used to quote the following character.
-When using a wildcard to match a file name, the wildcard characters will
-not match a @samp{/} character (used to separate directory names on
+When a file name is matched with a wildcard, the wildcard characters
+will not match a @samp{/} character (used to separate directory names on
Unix). A pattern consisting of a single @samp{*} character is an
-exception; it will always match any file name. The wildcard characters
-will match a @samp{/} character in a section name.
+exception; it will always match any file name. In a section name, the
+wildcard characters will match a @samp{/} character.
+
+Wildcards only match files which are explicitly specified on the command
+line. The linker does not search directories to expand wildcards.
+However, if you specify a simple file name---a name with no wildcard
+characters---in a linker script, and the file name is not also specified
+on the command line, the linker will attempt to open the file as though
+it appeared on the command line.
In the following example, the command script arranges the output file
into three consecutive sections, named @code{.text}, @code{.data}, and