1# $NetBSD: varmod-loop.mk,v 1.18 2021/12/05 15:20:13 rillig Exp $ 2# 3# Tests for the :@var@...${var}...@ variable modifier. 4 5# Force the test results to be independent of the default value of this 6# setting, which is 'yes' for NetBSD's usr.bin/make but 'no' for the bmake 7# distribution and pkgsrc/devel/bmake. 8.MAKE.SAVE_DOLLARS= yes 9 10all: varname-overwriting-target 11all: mod-loop-dollar 12 13varname-overwriting-target: 14 # Even "@" works as a variable name since the variable is installed 15 # in the "current" scope, which in this case is the one from the 16 # target. Because of this, after the loop has finished, '$@' is 17 # undefined. This is something that make doesn't expect, this may 18 # even trigger an assertion failure somewhere. 19 @echo :$@: :${:U1 2 3:@\@@x${@}y@}: :$@: 20 21 22 23# Demonstrate that it is possible to generate dollar signs using the 24# :@ modifier. 25# 26# These are edge cases that could have resulted in a parse error as well 27# since the $@ at the end could have been interpreted as a variable, which 28# would mean a missing closing @ delimiter. 29mod-loop-dollar: 30 @echo $@:${:U1:@word@${word}$@:Q}: 31 @echo $@:${:U2:@word@$${word}$$@:Q}: 32 @echo $@:${:U3:@word@$$${word}$$$@:Q}: 33 @echo $@:${:U4:@word@$$$${word}$$$$@:Q}: 34 @echo $@:${:U5:@word@$$$$${word}$$$$$@:Q}: 35 @echo $@:${:U6:@word@$$$$$${word}$$$$$$@:Q}: 36 37# It may happen that there are nested :@ modifiers that use the same name for 38# for the loop variable. These modifiers influence each other. 39# 40# As of 2020-10-18, the :@ modifier is implemented by actually setting a 41# variable in the scope of the expression and deleting it again after the 42# loop. This is different from the .for loops, which substitute the variable 43# expression with ${:Uvalue}, leading to different unwanted side effects. 44# 45# To make the behavior more predictable, the :@ modifier should restore the 46# loop variable to the value it had before the loop. This would result in 47# the string "1a b c1 2a b c2 3a b c3", making the two loops independent. 48.if ${:U1 2 3:@i@$i${:Ua b c:@i@$i@}${i:Uu}@} != "1a b cu 2a b cu 3a b cu" 49. error 50.endif 51 52# During the loop, the variable is actually defined and nonempty. 53# If the loop were implemented in the same way as the .for loop, the variable 54# would be neither defined nor nonempty since all expressions of the form 55# ${var} would have been replaced with ${:Uword} before evaluating them. 56.if defined(var) 57. error 58.endif 59.if ${:Uword:@var@${defined(var):?def:undef} ${empty(var):?empty:nonempty}@} \ 60 != "def nonempty" 61. error 62.endif 63.if defined(var) 64. error 65.endif 66 67# Assignment using the ':=' operator, combined with the :@var@ modifier 68# 698_DOLLARS= $$$$$$$$ 70# This string literal is written with 8 dollars, and this is saved as the 71# variable value. But as soon as this value is evaluated, it goes through 72# Var_Subst, which replaces each '$$' with a single '$'. This could be 73# prevented by VARE_EVAL_KEEP_DOLLAR, but that flag is usually removed 74# before expanding subexpressions. See ApplyModifier_Loop and 75# ParseModifierPart for examples. 76# 77.MAKEFLAGS: -dcp 78USE_8_DOLLARS= ${:U1:@var@${8_DOLLARS}@} ${8_DOLLARS} $$$$$$$$ 79.if ${USE_8_DOLLARS} != "\$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$" 80. error 81.endif 82# 83SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP:= ${USE_8_DOLLARS} 84# The ':=' assignment operator evaluates the variable value using the mode 85# VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR_UNDEF, which means that some dollar signs are preserved, 86# but not all. The dollar signs in the top-level expression and in the 87# indirect ${8_DOLLARS} are preserved. 88# 89# The variable modifier :@var@ does not preserve the dollar signs though, no 90# matter in which context it is evaluated. What happens in detail is: 91# First, the modifier part "${8_DOLLARS}" is parsed without expanding it. 92# Next, each word of the value is expanded on its own, and at this moment 93# in ApplyModifier_Loop, the flag keepDollar is not passed down to 94# ModifyWords, resulting in "$$$$" for the first word of USE_8_DOLLARS. 95# 96# The remaining words of USE_8_DOLLARS are not affected by any variable 97# modifier and are thus expanded with the flag keepDollar in action. 98# The variable SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP therefore gets assigned the raw value 99# "$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$". 100# 101# The variable expression in the condition then expands this raw stored value 102# once, resulting in "$$ $$$$ $$$$". The effects from VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR no 103# longer take place since they had only been active during the evaluation of 104# the variable assignment. 105.if ${SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP} != "\$\$ \$\$\$\$ \$\$\$\$" 106. error 107.endif 108.MAKEFLAGS: -d0 109 110# After looping over the words of the expression, the loop variable gets 111# undefined. The modifier ':@' uses an ordinary global variable for this, 112# which is different from the '.for' loop, which replaces ${var} with 113# ${:Uvalue} in the body of the loop. This choice of implementation detail 114# can be used for a nasty side effect. The expression ${:U:@VAR@@} evaluates 115# to an empty string, plus it undefines the variable 'VAR'. This is the only 116# possibility to undefine a global variable during evaluation. 117GLOBAL= before-global 118RESULT:= ${:U${GLOBAL} ${:U:@GLOBAL@@} ${GLOBAL:Uundefined}} 119.if ${RESULT} != "before-global undefined" 120. error 121.endif 122 123# The above side effect of undefining a variable from a certain scope can be 124# further combined with the otherwise undocumented implementation detail that 125# the argument of an '.if' directive is evaluated in cmdline scope. Putting 126# these together makes it possible to undefine variables from the cmdline 127# scope, something that is not possible in a straight-forward way. 128.MAKEFLAGS: CMDLINE=cmdline 129.if ${:U${CMDLINE}${:U:@CMDLINE@@}} != "cmdline" 130. error 131.endif 132# Now the cmdline variable got undefined. 133.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline" 134. error 135.endif 136# At this point, it still looks as if the cmdline variable were defined, 137# since the value of CMDLINE is still "cmdline". That impression is only 138# superficial though, the cmdline variable is actually deleted. To 139# demonstrate this, it is now possible to override its value using a global 140# variable, something that was not possible before: 141CMDLINE= global 142.if ${CMDLINE} != "global" 143. error 144.endif 145# Now undefine that global variable again, to get back to the original value. 146.undef CMDLINE 147.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline" 148. error 149.endif 150# What actually happened is that when CMDLINE was set by the '.MAKEFLAGS' 151# target in the cmdline scope, that same variable was exported to the 152# environment, see Var_SetWithFlags. 153.unexport CMDLINE 154.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline" 155. error 156.endif 157# The above '.unexport' has no effect since UnexportVar requires a global 158# variable of the same name to be defined, otherwise nothing is unexported. 159CMDLINE= global 160.unexport CMDLINE 161.undef CMDLINE 162.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline" 163. error 164.endif 165# This still didn't work since there must not only be a global variable, the 166# variable must be marked as exported as well, which it wasn't before. 167CMDLINE= global 168.export CMDLINE 169.unexport CMDLINE 170.undef CMDLINE 171.if ${CMDLINE:Uundefined} != "undefined" 172. error 173.endif 174# Finally the variable 'CMDLINE' from the cmdline scope is gone, and all its 175# traces from the environment are gone as well. To do that, a global variable 176# had to be defined and exported, something that is far from obvious. To 177# recap, here is the essence of the above story: 178.MAKEFLAGS: CMDLINE=cmdline # have a cmdline + environment variable 179.if ${:U:@CMDLINE@@}} # undefine cmdline, keep environment 180.endif 181CMDLINE= global # needed for deleting the environment 182.export CMDLINE # needed for deleting the environment 183.unexport CMDLINE # delete the environment 184.undef CMDLINE # delete the global helper variable 185.if ${CMDLINE:Uundefined} != "undefined" 186. error # 'CMDLINE' is gone now from all scopes 187.endif 188 189all: .PHONY 190