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Re: Why does GCC allow '$' character in variable and function names?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: Sajish V <emailsaju at yahoo dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:29:26 +0100
Subject: Re: Why does GCC allow '$' character in variable and function names?
References: <20061018041155.22546.qmail@web57714.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <m37iyyb693.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 > gcc permits '$' as an implementation defined character.  It does this
 > mainly for historical reasons.

We also need it to link C++ programs with programs written in the Java
language.  That's because in Java, classes have synthetic fields whose
names contain '$' chracaters.

Andrew.

References:
- Why does GCC allow '$' character in variable and function names?
  - From: Sajish V
- Re: Why does GCC allow '$' character in variable and function names?
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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