I am trying to build firmware for Cortex-M0 with clang. The gcc build works of course fine. The build fails during linking
ld.lld: error: baremetal.ld:72: ( expected, but got )
>>> KEEP(*.init_array)
>>> ^
clang-12: error: ld.lld command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
The linker script is pretty standard (and the offending line is also in scripts provided by CMSIS). Relevant part:
.rodata : ALIGN(4)
{
*(.rodata .rodata.* .gnu.linkonce.r.*)
. = ALIGN(4);
KEEP(*(.init))
. = ALIGN(4);
__preinit_array_start = . ;
KEEP(*(.preinit_array))
__preinit_array_end = . ;
. = ALIGN(4);
__init_array_start = . ;
KEEP(*(SORT(.init_array.*)))
KEEP(*.init_array) <<======== error here
__init_array_end = . ;
. = ALIGN(4);
KEEP(*(.fini))
. = ALIGN(4);
__fini_array_start = . ;
KEEP(*(.fini_array))
KEEP(*(SORT(.fini_array.*)))
__fini_array_end = . ;
. = ALIGN(4);
KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.ctors))
KEEP (*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtend.o) .ctors))
KEEP (*(SORT(.ctors.*)))
KEEP (*crtend.o(.ctors))
. = ALIGN(0x4);
KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.dtors))
KEEP (*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtend.o) .dtors))
KEEP (*(SORT(.dtors.*)))
KEEP (*crtend.o(.dtors))
*(.init .init.*)
*(.fini .fini.*)
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__preinit_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(.preinit_array))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__preinit_array_end = .);
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(SORT(.init_array.*)))
KEEP (*(.init_array))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_end = .);
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__fini_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(.fini_array))
KEEP (*(SORT(.fini_array.*)))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__fini_array_end = .);
. = ALIGN (8);
*(.rom)
*(.rom.b)
_etext = . ;
_sidata = _etext; /* first address of initialized data in FLASH */
} >FLASH
My LLD version
$ ld.lld -V
LLD 13.0.0 (compatible with GNU linkers)
How can I fix the linking?
This linker script is not valid. The error message tells you exactly what you have got wrong: "expected (".
The specification is filename(section)
or KEEP(filename(section))
.
You can't write: KEEP(*.init_array)
because there isn't a "(" between the filename and section name.
If what you mean is "keep the section .init_array from any file", then you need:
KEEP(*(.init_array))
If this script was really provided with a released version of CMSIS (and you haven't just made a typo yourself) then you should report this as a bug.