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Re: `$' in identifiers -vs- PPC Linux

To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: `$' in identifiers -vs- PPC Linux
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Date: 30 Aug 2000 15:25:22 -0600
Cc: Gcc Bug List <bug-gcc at gnu dot org>
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Reply-To: tromey at cygnus dot com

Alexandre> I'm bitten by this problem on AIX 4.1, when compiling
Alexandre> libgcj.  It would be nice if g++ could somehow mangle `$'
Alexandre> so as to accept it in source-code (even if with
Alexandre> -fdollars-in-identifiers) even if the assembler can't
Alexandre> accept them directly.

Yes.  For instance it could mangle them the way that gcj already
mangles non-ASCII characters that are valid in Java identifiers.

Tom

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