g++ compiled programs that link with Java HotSpot VM core dump

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 29, 1999, Michael Newcomb <michael.p.newcomb@lmco.com> wrote:

> Basically, any program (however simple) that gets linked with
> the Java HotSpot VM (-ljvm) core dumps at initialization.

A program that uses cout from -lstdc++ is hardly a ``simple'' one;
there's a lot of code involved in its initialization, and it happens
that g++ and Sun's C++ refer to the `cout' symbol assuming completely
different structures.

The only way to work around this problem would be to mangle variable
names, just like we mangle functions.

Having C++ hidden within libraries is becoming more and more common,
and, if we intend to be able to link g++-compiled code with such
libraries, I can't see any other way to go.

Can anybody think of any reason for *not* introducing name mangling in
variable names with -fnew-abi?

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