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Re: Cygwin breakage caused by 2000-01-05 varasm.c change
- To: Chris Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin breakage caused by 2000-01-05 varasm.c change
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:47:17 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <mrs at wrs dot com>
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Chris Faylor wrote:
> Hello,
> This recent change to varasm.c has caused some breakage in cygwin
> compilers.
>
> 2001-01-05 Mike Stump <mrs@wrs.com>
>
> * varasm.c (assemble_name): Ensure we output the stripped name.
>
> This change strips the '@' from a symbol before writing it, which means
> that "stdcall" function lables are not properly adorned. stdcall functions
> in Windows are suffixed with the number of bytes in the argument list so
> stripping the @n causes subsequent linker problems.
>
> I don't know if this change is wrong or if Cygwin's STRIP_NAME_ENCODING
> is wrong but, for now, I've reverted this change in my sandbox so that
> I can continue to use the CVS version of gcc.
>
> I'd appreciate knowing what the real resolution to this problem might
> be.
FWIW, this patch also breaks the ia64 port.
Bernd