https://bugs.gentoo.org/968893
https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1545
https://github.com/rui314/mold/pull/1546

From df7b1433b9dab52f207975a90bcef068e3999047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:39:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix getting output type from linker scripts that use
 AS_NEEDED

Make Script<E>::get_script_output_type support AS_NEEDED inside an INPUT
or GROUP group, so that the libatomic_asneeded.so linker script used by
GCC 16 works.

Fixes #1545

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
---
 src/linker-script.cc                  |  5 ++++-
 test/linker-script-group-as-needed.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 test/linker-script-group-as-needed.sh

diff --git a/src/linker-script.cc b/src/linker-script.cc
index 51144b3029..b40191887b 100644
--- a/src/linker-script.cc
+++ b/src/linker-script.cc
@@ -249,9 +249,12 @@ std::string_view Script<E>::get_script_output_type() {
   }
 
   if (tok.size() >= 3 && (tok[0] == "INPUT" || tok[0] == "GROUP") &&
-      tok[1] == "(")
+      tok[1] == "(") {
+    if (tok[2] == "AS_NEEDED" && tok[3] == "(")
+      tok = tok.subspan(2);
     if (MappedFile *mf = resolve_path(tok[2], false))
       return get_machine_type(ctx, rctx, mf);
+  }
   return "";
 }
 
diff --git a/test/linker-script-group-as-needed.sh b/test/linker-script-group-as-needed.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..61dcba76be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/linker-script-group-as-needed.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+. $(dirname $0)/common.inc
+
+cat <<EOF | $CC -o $t/a.o -c -xc -
+#include <stdio.h>
+int main() {
+  printf("Hello world\n");
+}
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF | $CC -B. -shared -o $t/libB.so -c -xc -
+void not_needed() { }
+EOF
+$AR
+
+cat <<EOF > $t/libscript.a
+GROUP(AS_NEEDED("$t/libB.so"))
+EOF
+
+$CC -B. -o $t/exe -L$t -lscript $t/a.o
+$QEMU $t/exe | grep 'Hello world'
+
+$CC -B. -o $t/exe -L$t -l:libscript.a $t/a.o
+$QEMU $t/exe | grep 'Hello world'