c/9209: cc allows dollars in identifiers by default on i386 but fails

[121269@bugs.debian.org]

>Number:         9209
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       cc allows dollars in identifiers by default on i386 but fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 06 15:06:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     121269@bugs.debian.org
>Release:        gcc-3.3 branch 20021231
>Organization:
>Environment:
i386-linux
>Description:
[ Reported to the Debian BTS as report #121269. 
  Please CC 121269@bugs.debian.org on replies. 
  Log of report can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/121269 ] 
 
this changed from gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.x. Even when using -Wall, -fno-dollars-in-identifiers doesn't warn about dollars in identifiers and does not give any error messages. 

$ gcc-2.95 -fno-dollars-in-identifiers bug-121269.c    
bug-121269.c:1: `$' in identifier   
bug-121269.c: In function `main':   
bug-121269.c:4: `$' in identifier   
bug-121269.c:4: `$' in identifier   
bug-121269.c:4: `$' in identifier   
bug-121269.c:6: `$' in identifier   
   
$ gcc-3.2 -fno-dollars-in-identifiers bug-121269.c    
/tmp/ccpP3lr8.s: Assembler messages:   
/tmp/ccpP3lr8.s:15: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'   
/tmp/ccpP3lr8.s:17: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `cmp'   
/tmp/ccpP3lr8.s:26: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `inc'   
   
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int $b;   
main()   
{   
  for($b=0;$b<10;$b++)   
  {   
    printf("%d\n",$b);   
  }   
}   
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