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Re: [LTO merge][4/15][RFA] C++ front end


Diego Novillo wrote:

> This is done during the very thorough symbol and type walk we do in
> free_lang_data.  We walk down every function body, every symbol, every
> type, ... collecting symbols and types that should be cleared of
> language-dependent information.
> 
> For all the VAR_DECL and FUNCTION_DECL symbols we find in this walk,
> we check whether they will need to get an assembler name.  We have to
> do this at this point because we end up pulling the front end rug from
> underneath all of them.

I'd suggest not walking into function templates or class templates
during this process.  That should avoid seeing anything that's not a
fully specialized template.  Jason, does that make sense?

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