From d5faeeab1d2115c02a330ac9c95d63ba225faabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:00:55 +0200
Subject: Handle special variable names in base lexer via mode data

---
 libbuild2/lexer.cxx | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'libbuild2/lexer.cxx')

diff --git a/libbuild2/lexer.cxx b/libbuild2/lexer.cxx
index e50ec16..2f2ace4 100644
--- a/libbuild2/lexer.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/lexer.cxx
@@ -741,7 +741,19 @@ namespace build2
       //
       else if (m == lexer_mode::variable)
       {
-        if (c != '_' && !(lexeme.empty () ? alpha (c) : alnum (c)))
+        bool first (lexeme.empty ());
+
+        // Handle special variable names, if any.
+        //
+        if (first        &&
+            st.data != 0 &&
+            strchr (reinterpret_cast<const char*> (st.data), c) != nullptr)
+        {
+          get ();
+          lexeme += c;
+          done = true;
+        }
+        else if (c != '_' && !(first ? alpha (c) : alnum (c)))
         {
           if (c != '.')
             done = true;
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