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Re: _GLOBAL__I_*
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: rth at redhat dot com (Richard Henderson)
- Cc: magfr at lysator dot liu dot se (Magnus Fromreide), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:01:17 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: _GLOBAL__I_*
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:03:41AM +0100, Magnus Fromreide wrote:
> > In doing that I found a few symbols with names similar to
> > _GLOBAL__I__ZNSt6locale4noneE and started to ponder why they weren't
> > demangled and what the intention of them is.
>
> They were "demangled", inasmuch as it isn't mangled. It's an
> artificial global constructor tag meant for collect2.
In this situation, HP's demangler prints something like
"global constructor associated with <xxx>" where xxx might be
a source file or a symbol.