`$' in identifiers -vs- PPC Linux

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 30, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:

>     #define DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS 0

> Could we define this to `1' for Linux?

If the assembler accepts dollars in identifiers, yes.

I'm bitten by this problem on AIX 4.1, when compiling libgcj.  It
would be nice if g++ could somehow mangle `$' so as to accept it in
source-code (even if with -fdollars-in-identifiers) even if the
assembler can't accept them directly.

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