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Re: trunk: bootstrap comparison failure
Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> writes:
>> Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> writes:
>>
>> > I think bootstrap with C++ or GO is broken for a while on targets not having ctor support, but now it broke
>> > on targets with ctor support as a result of my patch renaming some of the ctors from GLOBAL__I into GLOBAL__sub_I.
>>
>> I didn't know you were making that change. There are a several tools
>> which recognize _GLOBAL__ specially, including examining the next
>> character. Have you updated the demangler? Have you updated the GNU
>> linker--see ctor_prio in ld/ldlang.c?
>
> I changed name only for functions that are produced internally in GCC. These are functions
> that are not constructors, but are called from constructors called GLOBAL__I/GLOBAL__D as usually.
> Most of time they are inlined, but in some cases they don't.
It seems likely to cause confusion if these names wind up in the symbol
table.
Ian