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Re: `$' in identifiers -vs- PPC Linux
On Aug 30, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:
Alexandre> I'm bitten by this problem on AIX 4.1, when compiling
Alexandre> libgcj. It would be nice if g++ could somehow mangle `$'
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.
But then, maybe it is GCJ that should be doing that... What do other
Java ports do to support JNI when their assemblers don't support `$'s?
For example, any idea of what IBM's port of JDK to AIX does?
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