Re: advice needed regarding c++ name mangling

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Razya Ladelsky wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote on 11/03/2005 04:55:38:
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> > Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
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> > > As for why the new name doesn't work, it's not clear from the above.
> > > I'd need to see the assembly and the error.
> > > :)
> >
> > Likewise.  I assume these functions have only internal linkage?  Or that 
>
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> > the original function is still provided with external linkage?  (I'm 
> > just checking that we're not breaking the ABI.)
>
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> These functions indeed have only internal linkage.
> The error I get is :
>
> /tmp/cc9VryOe.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cc9VryOe.s:11056: Error: unrecognized symbol type ""
> /tmp/cc9VryOe.s:11056: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored 
> character is `<'

I'm not sure how exactly you're doing things.  But what you should be 
doing, I think, is annotating declarations with a "version" field, and 
then having the code in cp/mangle.c mangle that into the unqualified 
name of the function.  That will also allow the demangler to work OK.

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