From 3c968de5c7d1719b2f9b538f2f7f5f5922e5f311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 10:44:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Stop the assembler from complaining that the input and output files are the same, if neither of them are regular files. PR 25572 * as.c (main): Allow matching input and outputs when they are not regular files. --- gas/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ gas/as.c | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index f81ec12b9da..e2984b59c7f 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2020-03-06 Nick Clifton + + PR 25572 + * as.c (main): Allow matching input and outputs when they are + not regular files. + 2020-03-06 Jan Beulich * config/tc-i386.c (match_mem_size): Generalize broadcast special diff --git a/gas/as.c b/gas/as.c index d8d20cca76f..51bb7210ec8 100644 --- a/gas/as.c +++ b/gas/as.c @@ -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; -- 2.30.2