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Re: [PATCH] Translate dollar signs to underscores for AIX (PR target/35483)

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Java Patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:13:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Translate dollar signs to underscores for AIX (PR target/35483)
References: <303e1d290810141033uee14dd2j749d4280b6c98e00@mail.gmail.com> <48F63A07.1090101@redhat.com> <303e1d290810151646g47d364d7t6b6eed707ab72bdc@mail.gmail.com>

David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Java front end really should honor NO_DOLLAR_IN_LABEL and replace
>> those symbols with something else, e.g. that underscore.  I really hate
>> to have this hack burried in the backend.
> 
> The one benefit of this approach is the AIX support machinery in GCC can
> rename the external symbols to the normal Java identifiers, so developers
> see the Java names they expect.  If the Java front-end converted the symbol
> name, it would be difficult to recover the real value.

Fair enough, so I'll leave the Java FE alone.  To do otherwise would require
changes to gdb and to g++.

Andrew.

References:
- [PATCH] Translate dollar signs to underscores for AIX (PR target/35483)
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: [PATCH] Translate dollar signs to underscores for AIX (PR target/35483)
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: [PATCH] Translate dollar signs to underscores for AIX (PR target/35483)
  - From: David Edelsohn

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