1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld_script.awk b/ld/ld_script.awk
index 96460a52a0b9..12f2e3e5b75a 100644
--- a/ld/ld_script.awk
+++ b/ld/ld_script.awk
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-# $Id: ld_script.awk 2493 2012-04-15 18:59:09Z kaiwang27 $
+# Transform text file contents into a string literal.
+#
+# Usage: awk -f THIS-SCRIPT INPUT > OUTPUT
+#
+# $Id: ld_script.awk 3593 2018-04-11 18:26:20Z jkoshy $
 
 BEGIN {
+    # Generate a symbol name based on the last component
+    # of the input file name.
     split(ARGV[1], s, ".");
+    sub(".*/", "", s[1]);
     printf "const char *%s = ", s[1];
 }
 
+# Enclose each line of text with a preceding and trailing '"',
+# escaping any '"' characters that are present.
 {
     printf "\"";
     gsub("\"", "\\\"");