varmod-indirect.mk revision 1.24 1 # $NetBSD: varmod-indirect.mk,v 1.24 2025/03/30 16:43:10 rillig Exp $
2 #
3 # Tests for indirect variable modifiers, such as in ${VAR:${M_modifiers}}.
4 # These can be used for very basic purposes like converting a string to either
5 # uppercase or lowercase, as well as for fairly advanced modifiers that first
6 # look like line noise and are hard to decipher.
7 #
8 # Initial support for indirect modifiers was added in var.c 1.101 from
9 # 2006-02-18. Since var.c 1.108 from 2006-05-11 it is possible to use
10 # indirect modifiers for all but the very first modifier as well.
11
12
13 # To apply a modifier indirectly via another variable, the whole
14 # modifier must be put into a single expression.
15 # The following expression generates a parse error since its indirect
16 # modifier contains more than a sole expression.
17 #
18 # expect+1: Unknown modifier ":${"
19 .if ${value:L:${:US}${:U,value,replacement,}} != "S,value,replacement,}"
20 . warning unexpected
21 .endif
22
23
24 # Adding another level of indirection (the 2 nested :U expressions) helps.
25 .if ${value:L:${:U${:US}${:U,value,replacement,}}} != "replacement"
26 . warning unexpected
27 .endif
28
29
30 # Multiple indirect modifiers can be applied one after another as long as
31 # they are separated with colons.
32 .if ${value:L:${:US,a,A,}:${:US,e,E,}} != "vAluE"
33 . warning unexpected
34 .endif
35
36
37 # An indirect variable that evaluates to the empty string is allowed.
38 # It is even allowed to write another modifier directly afterwards.
39 # There is no practical use case for this feature though, as demonstrated
40 # in the test case directly below.
41 .if ${value:L:${:Dempty}S,value,replaced,} != "replaced"
42 . warning unexpected
43 .endif
44
45 # If an expression for an indirect modifier evaluates to anything else than an
46 # empty string and is neither followed by a ':' nor '}', this produces a parse
47 # error. Due to this parse error, this construct cannot be used reasonably
48 # in practice.
49 #
50 # expect+2: Unknown modifier ":${"
51 #.MAKEFLAGS: -dvc
52 .if ${value:L:${:UM*}S,value,replaced,} == "anything"
53 . error
54 .else
55 . error
56 .endif
57 #.MAKEFLAGS: -d0
58
59 # An indirect modifier can be followed by other modifiers, no matter if the
60 # indirect modifier evaluates to an empty string or not.
61 #
62 # This makes it possible to define conditional modifiers, like this:
63 #
64 # M.little-endian= S,1234,4321,
65 # M.big-endian= # none
66 .if ${value:L:${:D empty }:S,value,replaced,} != "replaced"
67 . error
68 .endif
69
70
71 # The nested expression expands to "tu", and this is interpreted as
72 # a variable modifier for the value "Upper", resulting in "UPPER".
73 .if ${Upper:L:${:Utu}} != "UPPER"
74 . error
75 .endif
76
77 # The nested expression expands to "tl", and this is interpreted as
78 # a variable modifier for the value "Lower", resulting in "lower".
79 .if ${Lower:L:${:Utl}} != "lower"
80 . error
81 .endif
82
83
84 # The nested expression is ${1 != 1:?Z:tl}, consisting of the
85 # condition "1 != 1", the then-branch "Z" and the else-branch "tl". Since
86 # the condition evaluates to false, the then-branch is ignored (it would
87 # have been an unknown modifier anyway) and the ":tl" modifier is applied.
88 .if ${Mixed:L:${1 != 1:?Z:tl}} != "mixed"
89 . error
90 .endif
91
92
93 # The indirect modifier can also replace an ':L' modifier, which allows for
94 # brain twisters since by reading the expression alone, it is not possible
95 # to say whether the variable name will be evaluated as a variable name or
96 # as the immediate value of the expression.
97 VAR= value
98 M_ExpandVar= # an empty modifier
99 M_VarAsValue= L
100 #
101 .if ${VAR:${M_ExpandVar}} != "value"
102 . error
103 .endif
104 .if ${VAR:${M_VarAsValue}} != "VAR"
105 . error
106 .endif
107
108 # The indirect modifier M_ListToSkip, when applied to a list of patterns,
109 # expands to a sequence of ':N' modifiers, each of which filters one of the
110 # patterns. This list of patterns can then be applied to another variable
111 # to actually filter that variable.
112 #
113 M_ListToSkip= @pat@N$${pat}@:ts:
114 #
115 # The dollar signs need to be doubled in the above modifier expression,
116 # otherwise they would be expanded too early, that is, when parsing the
117 # modifier itself.
118 #
119 # In the following example, M_NoPrimes expands to 'N2:N3:N5:N7:N1[1379]'.
120 # The 'N' comes from the expression 'N${pat}', the separating colons come
121 # from the modifier ':ts:'.
122 #
123 #.MAKEFLAGS: -dcv # Uncomment this line to see the details
124 #
125 PRIMES= 2 3 5 7 1[1379]
126 M_NoPrimes= ${PRIMES:${M_ListToSkip}}
127 .if ${:U:range=20:${M_NoPrimes}} != "1 4 6 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20"
128 . error
129 .endif
130 .MAKEFLAGS: -d0
131
132
133 # In contrast to the .if conditions, the .for loop allows undefined
134 # expressions. These expressions expand to empty strings.
135
136 # An undefined expression without any modifiers expands to an empty string.
137 .for var in before ${UNDEF} after
138 # expect+2: before
139 # expect+1: after
140 . info ${var}
141 .endfor
142
143 # An undefined expression with only modifiers that keep the expression
144 # undefined expands to an empty string.
145 .for var in before ${UNDEF:${:US,a,a,}} after
146 # expect+2: before
147 # expect+1: after
148 . info ${var}
149 .endfor
150
151 # Even in an indirect modifier based on an undefined variable, the value of
152 # the expression in Var_Parse is a simple empty string.
153 .for var in before ${UNDEF:${:U}} after
154 # expect+2: before
155 # expect+1: after
156 . info ${var}
157 .endfor
158
159 # An error in an indirect modifier.
160 # expect+1: Unknown modifier ":Z"
161 .for var in before ${UNDEF:${:UZ}} after
162 . error
163 .endfor
164
165
166 # Another slightly different evaluation context is the right-hand side of
167 # a variable assignment using ':='.
168 .MAKEFLAGS: -dpv
169
170 # The undefined expression is kept as-is.
171 _:= before ${UNDEF} after
172
173 # The undefined expression is kept as-is.
174 _:= before ${UNDEF:${:US,a,a,}} after
175
176 # XXX: The subexpression ${:U} is fully defined, therefore it is expanded.
177 # This results in ${UNDEF:}, which can lead to tricky parse errors later,
178 # when the variable '_' is expanded further.
179 #
180 # XXX: What should be the correct strategy here? One possibility is to
181 # expand the defined subexpression and replace it with ${:U...}, just like
182 # in .for loops. This would preserve the structure of the expression while
183 # at the same time expanding the expression as far as possible.
184 _:= before ${UNDEF:${:U}} after
185
186 # XXX: This expands to ${UNDEF:Z}, which will behave differently if the
187 # variable '_' is used in a context where the expression ${_} is
188 # parsed but not evaluated.
189 # expect+1: Unknown modifier ":Z"
190 _:= before ${UNDEF:${:UZ}} after
191
192 .MAKEFLAGS: -d0
193 .undef _
194
195
196 # When evaluating indirect modifiers, these modifiers may expand to ':tW',
197 # which modifies the interpretation of the expression value. This modified
198 # interpretation only lasts until the end of the indirect modifier, it does
199 # not influence the outer expression.
200 .if ${1 2 3:L:tW:[#]} != 1 # direct :tW applies to the :[#]
201 . error
202 .endif
203 .if ${1 2 3:L:${:UtW}:[#]} != 3 # indirect :tW does not apply to :[#]
204 . error
205 .endif
206
207
208 # When evaluating indirect modifiers, these modifiers may expand to ':ts*',
209 # which modifies the interpretation of the expression value. This modified
210 # interpretation only lasts until the end of the indirect modifier, it does
211 # not influence the outer expression.
212 #
213 # In this first expression, the direct ':ts*' has no effect since ':U' does not
214 # treat the expression value as a list of words but as a single word. It has
215 # to be ':U', not ':D', since the "expression name" is "1 2 3" and there is no
216 # variable of that name.
217 #.MAKEFLAGS: -dcpv
218 .if ${1 2 3:L:ts*:Ua b c} != "a b c"
219 . error
220 .endif
221 # In this expression, the direct ':ts*' affects the ':M' at the end.
222 .if ${1 2 3:L:ts*:Ua b c:M*} != "a*b*c"
223 . error
224 .endif
225 # In this expression, the ':ts*' is indirect, therefore the changed separator
226 # only applies to the modifiers from the indirect text. It does not affect
227 # the ':M' since that is not part of the text from the indirect modifier.
228 #
229 # Implementation detail: when ApplyModifiersIndirect calls ApplyModifiers
230 # (which creates a new ModChain containing a fresh separator),
231 # the outer separator character is not passed by reference to the inner
232 # evaluation, therefore the scope of the inner separator ends after applying
233 # the modifier ':ts*'.
234 .if ${1 2 3:L:${:Uts*}:Ua b c:M*} != "a b c"
235 . error
236 .endif
237
238 # A direct modifier ':U' turns the expression from undefined to defined.
239 # An indirect modifier ':U' has the same effect, unlike the separator from
240 # ':ts*' or the single-word marker from ':tW'.
241 #
242 # This is because when ApplyModifiersIndirect calls ApplyModifiers, it passes
243 # the definedness of the outer expression by reference. If that weren't the
244 # case, the first condition below would result in a parse error because its
245 # left-hand side would be undefined.
246 .if ${UNDEF:${:UUindirect-fallback}} != "indirect-fallback"
247 . error
248 .endif
249 .if ${UNDEF:${:UUindirect-fallback}:Uouter-fallback} != "outer-fallback"
250 . error
251 .endif
252
253
254 # In parse-only mode, the indirect modifiers must not be evaluated.
255 #
256 # Before var.c 1.1098 from 2024-02-04, the expression for an indirect modifier
257 # was partially evaluated (only the variable value, without applying any
258 # modifiers) and then interpreted as modifiers to the main expression.
259 #
260 # The expression ${:UZ} starts with the value "", and in parse-only mode, the
261 # modifier ':UZ' does not modify the expression value. This results in an
262 # empty string for the indirect modifiers, generating no warning.
263 .if 0 && ${VAR:${:UZ}}
264 .endif
265 # The expression ${M_invalid} starts with the value "Z", which is an unknown
266 # modifier. Trying to apply this unknown modifier generated a warning.
267 M_invalid= Z
268 .if 0 && ${VAR:${M_invalid}}
269 .endif
270 # The ':S' modifier does not change the expression value in parse-only mode,
271 # keeping the "Z", which is then skipped in parse-only mode.
272 .if 0 && ${VAR:${M_invalid:S,^,N*,:ts:}}
273 .endif
274 # The ':@' modifier does not change the expression value in parse-only mode,
275 # keeping the "Z", which is then skipped in parse-only mode.
276 .if 0 && ${VAR:${M_invalid:@m@N*$m@:ts:}}
277 .endif
278