[Bug ld/27565] ld: Support input section description keyword: REVERSE

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27565

--- Comment #4 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Fangrui Song from comment #3)

> Hi Nick, thanks for working on this feature! Do you have some examples how
> this keyword can be used?

The patch does include some new test cases which show the keyword being used.


> If I try
> (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/
> sort-init.s#L53):
> 
> 
> SECTIONS {
>   .init_array : {
>     *(REVERSE(SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(.init_array.* .ctors.*))
> SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(foo*))
>     *(REVERSE(.init_array .ctors))
>   }
> }
> 
> ld reports `syntax error`.

Darn!   I included support for "REVERSE(SORT_BY_NAME(..." but not for
"REVERSE(SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(..."  

I will update the patch...

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