_GLOBAL__I_*

[Joe Buck]

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:03:41AM +0100, Magnus Fromreide wrote:
> > In doing that I found a few symbols with names similar to
> > _GLOBAL__I__ZNSt6locale4noneE and started to ponder why they weren't
> > demangled and what the intention of them is.
> 
> They were "demangled", inasmuch as it isn't mangled.  It's an
> artificial global constructor tag meant for collect2.

In this situation, HP's demangler prints something like
"global constructor associated with <xxx>" where xxx might be
a source file or a symbol.