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Diffstat (limited to 'gas/as.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gas/as.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1254,14 +1254,27 @@ main (int argc, char ** argv) { struct stat sib; - if (stat (argv[i], &sib) == 0) + /* Check that the input file and output file are different. */ + if (stat (argv[i], &sib) == 0 + && sib.st_ino == sob.st_ino + /* POSIX emulating systems may support stat() but if the + underlying file system does not support a file serial number + of some kind then they will return 0 for the inode. So + two files with an inode of 0 may not actually be the same. + On real POSIX systems no ordinary file will ever have an + inode of 0. */ + && sib.st_ino != 0 + /* 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) { - if (sib.st_ino == sob.st_ino && sib.st_ino != 0) - { - /* Don't let as_fatal remove the output file! */ - out_file_name = NULL; - as_fatal (_("The input and output files must be distinct")); - } + const char *saved_out_file_name = out_file_name; + + /* Don't let as_fatal remove the output file! */ + out_file_name = NULL; + as_fatal (_("The input '%s' and output '%s' files are the same"), + argv[i], saved_out_file_name); } } } |