# $NetBSD: varmod-loop.mk,v 1.8 2020/11/12 00:40:55 rillig Exp $ # # Tests for the :@var@...${var}...@ variable modifier. .MAKE.SAVE_DOLLARS= yes all: mod-loop-varname all: mod-loop-resolve all: mod-loop-varname-dollar all: mod-loop-dollar # In the :@ modifier, the name of the loop variable can even be generated # dynamically. There's no practical use-case for this, and hopefully nobody # will ever depend on this, but technically it's possible. # Therefore, in -dL mode, this is forbidden, see lint.mk. mod-loop-varname: @echo :${:Uone two three:@${:Ubar:S,b,v,}@+${var}+@:Q}: # ":::" is a very creative variable name, unlikely in practice. # The expression ${\:\:\:} would not work since backslashes can only # be escaped in the modifiers, but not in the variable name. @echo :${:U1 2 3:@:::@x${${:U\:\:\:}}y@}: # "@@" is another creative variable name. @echo :${:U1 2 3:@\@\@@x${@@}y@}: # Even "@" works as a variable name since the variable is installed # in the "current" scope, which in this case is the one from the # target. @echo :$@: :${:U1 2 3:@\@@x${@}y@}: :$@: # In extreme cases, even the backslash can be used as variable name. # It needs to be doubled though. @echo :${:U1 2 3:@\\@x${${:Ux:S,x,\\,}}y@}: # The variable name can technically be empty, and in this situation # the variable value cannot be accessed since the empty variable is # protected to always return an empty string. @echo empty: :${:U1 2 3:@@x${}y@}: # The :@ modifier resolves the variables a little more often than expected. # In particular, it resolves _all_ variables from the context, and not only # the loop variable (in this case v). # # The d means direct reference, the i means indirect reference. RESOLVE= ${RES1} $${RES1} RES1= 1d${RES2} 1i$${RES2} RES2= 2d${RES3} 2i$${RES3} RES3= 3 mod-loop-resolve: @echo $@:${RESOLVE:@v@w${v}w@:Q}: # Until 2020-07-20, the variable name of the :@ modifier could end with one # or two dollar signs, which were silently ignored. # There's no point in allowing a dollar sign in that position. mod-loop-varname-dollar: @echo $@:${1 2 3:L:@v$@($v)@:Q}. @echo $@:${1 2 3:L:@v$$@($v)@:Q}. @echo $@:${1 2 3:L:@v$$$@($v)@:Q}. # Demonstrate that it is possible to generate dollar signs using the # :@ modifier. # # These are edge cases that could have resulted in a parse error as well # since the $@ at the end could have been interpreted as a variable, which # would mean a missing closing @ delimiter. mod-loop-dollar: @echo $@:${:U1:@word@${word}$@:Q}: @echo $@:${:U2:@word@$${word}$$@:Q}: @echo $@:${:U3:@word@$$${word}$$$@:Q}: @echo $@:${:U4:@word@$$$${word}$$$$@:Q}: @echo $@:${:U5:@word@$$$$${word}$$$$$@:Q}: @echo $@:${:U6:@word@$$$$$${word}$$$$$$@:Q}: # It may happen that there are nested :@ modifiers that use the same name for # for the loop variable. These modifiers influence each other. # # As of 2020-10-18, the :@ modifier is implemented by actually setting a # variable in the context of the expression and deleting it again after the # loop. This is different from the .for loops, which substitute the variable # expression with ${:Uvalue}, leading to different unwanted side effects. # # To make the behavior more predictable, the :@ modifier should restore the # loop variable to the value it had before the loop. This would result in # the string "1a b c1 2a b c2 3a b c3", making the two loops independent. .if ${:U1 2 3:@i@$i${:Ua b c:@i@$i@}${i:Uu}@} != "1a b cu 2a b cu 3a b cu" . error .endif # During the loop, the variable is actually defined and nonempty. # If the loop were implemented in the same way as the .for loop, the variable # would be neither defined nor nonempty since all expressions of the form # ${var} would have been replaced with ${:Uword} before evaluating them. .if defined(var) . error .endif .if ${:Uword:@var@${defined(var):?def:undef} ${empty(var):?empty:nonempty}@} \ != "def nonempty" . error .endif .if defined(var) . error .endif # Assignment using the ':=' operator, combined with the :@var@ modifier # 8_DOLLARS= $$$$$$$$ # This string literal is written with 8 dollars, and this is saved as the # variable value. But as soon as this value is evaluated, it goes through # Var_Subst, which replaces each '$$' with a single '$'. This could be # prevented by VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR, but that flag is usually removed before # expanding subexpressions. See ApplyModifier_Loop and ParseModifierPart # for examples. # .MAKEFLAGS: -dcp USE_8_DOLLARS= ${:U1:@var@${8_DOLLARS}@} ${8_DOLLARS} $$$$$$$$ .if ${USE_8_DOLLARS} != "\$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$" . error .endif # SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP:= ${USE_8_DOLLARS} # The ':=' assignment operator evaluates the variable value using the flag # VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR, which means that some dollar signs are preserved, but not # all. The dollar signs in the top-level expression and in the indirect # ${8_DOLLARS} are preserved. # # The variable modifier :@var@ does not preserve the dollar signs though, no # matter in which context it is evaluated. What happens in detail is: # First, the modifier part "${8_DOLLARS}" is parsed without expanding it. # Next, each word of the value is expanded on its own, and at this moment # in ApplyModifier_Loop, the VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR flag is not passed down to # ModifyWords, resulting in "$$$$" for the first word of USE_8_DOLLARS. # # The remaining words of USE_8_DOLLARS are not affected by any variable # modifier and are thus expanded with the flag VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR in action. # The variable SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP therefore gets assigned the raw value # "$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$". # # The variable expression in the condition then expands this raw stored value # once, resulting in "$$ $$$$ $$$$". The effects from VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR no # longer take place since they had only been active during the evaluation of # the variable assignment. .if ${SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP} != "\$\$ \$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$" . error .endif .MAKEFLAGS: -d0