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diff --git a/contrib/bmake/unit-tests/varmod-loop.mk b/contrib/bmake/unit-tests/varmod-loop.mk
index c109c775a492..4fdaa3ff4e61 100644
--- a/contrib/bmake/unit-tests/varmod-loop.mk
+++ b/contrib/bmake/unit-tests/varmod-loop.mk
@@ -1,63 +1,21 @@
-# $NetBSD: varmod-loop.mk,v 1.9 2021/02/04 21:42:47 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: varmod-loop.mk,v 1.15 2021/04/11 13:35:56 rillig Exp $
#
# Tests for the :@var@...${var}...@ variable modifier.
.MAKE.SAVE_DOLLARS= yes
-all: mod-loop-varname
-all: mod-loop-resolve
-all: mod-loop-varname-dollar
+all: varname-overwriting-target
all: mod-loop-dollar
-# In the :@ modifier, the name of the loop variable can even be generated
-# dynamically. There's no practical use-case for this, and hopefully nobody
-# will ever depend on this, but technically it's possible.
-# Therefore, in -dL mode, this is forbidden, see lint.mk.
-mod-loop-varname:
- @echo :${: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@}:
-
+varname-overwriting-target:
# 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.
+ # target. Because of this, after the loop has finished, '$@' is
+ # undefined. This is something that make doesn't expect, this may
+ # even trigger an assertion failure somewhere.
@echo :$@: :${:U1 2 3:@\@@x${@}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 scope, 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$$$@($v)@:Q}.
# Demonstrate that it is possible to generate dollar signs using the
# :@ modifier.
@@ -109,9 +67,9 @@ mod-loop-dollar:
# This string literal is written with 8 dollars, and this is saved as the
# variable value. But as soon as this value is evaluated, it goes through
# Var_Subst, which replaces each '$$' 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.
+# prevented by VARE_EVAL_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} $$$$$$$$
@@ -120,20 +78,20 @@ USE_8_DOLLARS= ${:U1:@var@${8_DOLLARS}@} ${8_DOLLARS} $$$$$$$$
.endif
#
SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP:= ${USE_8_DOLLARS}
-# The ':=' assignment operator evaluates the variable value using the flag
-# VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR, which means that some dollar signs are preserved, but not
-# all. The dollar signs in the top-level expression and in the indirect
-# ${8_DOLLARS} are preserved.
+# The ':=' assignment operator evaluates the variable value using the mode
+# VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR_UNDEF, which means that some dollar signs are preserved,
+# but not all. The dollar signs in the top-level expression and in the
+# indirect ${8_DOLLARS} are preserved.
#
# The variable modifier :@var@ does not preserve the dollar signs though, no
# matter in which context it is evaluated. What happens in detail is:
# First, the modifier part "${8_DOLLARS}" is parsed without expanding it.
# Next, each word of the value is expanded on its own, and at this moment
-# in ApplyModifier_Loop, the VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR flag is not passed down to
+# in ApplyModifier_Loop, the flag keepDollar is not passed down to
# ModifyWords, resulting in "$$$$" for the first word of USE_8_DOLLARS.
#
# The remaining words of USE_8_DOLLARS are not affected by any variable
-# modifier and are thus expanded with the flag VARE_KEEP_DOLLAR in action.
+# modifier and are thus expanded with the flag keepDollar in action.
# The variable SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP therefore gets assigned the raw value
# "$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$".
#
@@ -145,3 +103,87 @@ SUBST_CONTAINING_LOOP:= ${USE_8_DOLLARS}
. error
.endif
.MAKEFLAGS: -d0
+
+# After looping over the words of the expression, the loop variable gets
+# undefined. The modifier ':@' uses an ordinary global variable for this,
+# which is different from the '.for' loop, which replaces ${var} with
+# ${:Uvalue} in the body of the loop. This choice of implementation detail
+# can be used for a nasty side effect. The expression ${:U:@VAR@@} evaluates
+# to an empty string, plus it undefines the variable 'VAR'. This is the only
+# possibility to undefine a global variable during evaluation.
+GLOBAL= before-global
+RESULT:= ${:U${GLOBAL} ${:U:@GLOBAL@@} ${GLOBAL:Uundefined}}
+.if ${RESULT} != "before-global undefined"
+. error
+.endif
+
+# The above side effect of undefining a variable from a certain scope can be
+# further combined with the otherwise undocumented implementation detail that
+# the argument of an '.if' directive is evaluated in cmdline scope. Putting
+# these together makes it possible to undefine variables from the cmdline
+# scope, something that is not possible in a straight-forward way.
+.MAKEFLAGS: CMDLINE=cmdline
+.if ${:U${CMDLINE}${:U:@CMDLINE@@}} != "cmdline"
+. error
+.endif
+# Now the cmdline variable got undefined.
+.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline"
+. error
+.endif
+# At this point, it still looks as if the cmdline variable were defined,
+# since the value of CMDLINE is still "cmdline". That impression is only
+# superficial though, the cmdline variable is actually deleted. To
+# demonstrate this, it is now possible to override its value using a global
+# variable, something that was not possible before:
+CMDLINE= global
+.if ${CMDLINE} != "global"
+. error
+.endif
+# Now undefine that global variable again, to get back to the original value.
+.undef CMDLINE
+.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline"
+. error
+.endif
+# What actually happened is that when CMDLINE was set by the '.MAKEFLAGS'
+# target in the cmdline scope, that same variable was exported to the
+# environment, see Var_SetWithFlags.
+.unexport CMDLINE
+.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline"
+. error
+.endif
+# The above '.unexport' has no effect since UnexportVar requires a global
+# variable of the same name to be defined, otherwise nothing is unexported.
+CMDLINE= global
+.unexport CMDLINE
+.undef CMDLINE
+.if ${CMDLINE} != "cmdline"
+. error
+.endif
+# This still didn't work since there must not only be a global variable, the
+# variable must be marked as exported as well, which it wasn't before.
+CMDLINE= global
+.export CMDLINE
+.unexport CMDLINE
+.undef CMDLINE
+.if ${CMDLINE:Uundefined} != "undefined"
+. error
+.endif
+# Finally the variable 'CMDLINE' from the cmdline scope is gone, and all its
+# traces from the environment are gone as well. To do that, a global variable
+# had to be defined and exported, something that is far from obvious. To
+# recap, here is the essence of the above story:
+.MAKEFLAGS: CMDLINE=cmdline # have a cmdline + environment variable
+.if ${:U:@CMDLINE@@}} # undefine cmdline, keep environment
+.endif
+CMDLINE= global # needed for deleting the environment
+.export CMDLINE # needed for deleting the environment
+.unexport CMDLINE # delete the environment
+.undef CMDLINE # delete the global helper variable
+.if ${CMDLINE:Uundefined} != "undefined"
+. error # 'CMDLINE' is gone now from all scopes
+.endif
+
+
+# TODO: Actually trigger the undefined behavior (use after free) that was
+# already suspected in Var_Parse, in the comment 'the value of the variable
+# must not change'.