Re: darwin.c identifier-smashing

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Andrew Pinski wrote:

> > Geoff, Mike --
> >
> > There's some quadratic behavior in darwin.c that needs fixing.
> >    
>
> Most of these can be fixed by using SYMBOL_REF_FLAGS instead of
> symbol name munging, but nobody has ever got it right.
>
> RTH tried to change it about a year or so ago but it would seg fault on
> right away.
>
> I have a small speedup which checks the string lengths but I got it wrong
> somehow.
>  
Possibly because the evil mutation of IDENTIFIER_POINTER means that the 
IDENTIFIER_LENGTH is no longer valid?

> See <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg02029.html>, the reason
> why I have not applied them yet is because one of those three break bootstrap
> in libstdc++.
>  
Do you have any interest in extracting the bits from Mike's patch?

Thanks,

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