Lazy allocation of DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME

[Mark Mitchell]

Chris Lattner wrote:

>On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>>Just to be clear, this is not a problem with IMA, this is a problem with
>>>doing it at the source level.
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>>I completely agree.  In GCC, the current IMA stuff is sort-of halfway
>>in-between.  The representation we use is basically at the source level,
>>but, as Geoff mentions, we don't quite fully squish everything together
>>into one translation unit.  So, it's pretty similar to C, but if there
>>were a source language for this representation, it would also have some
>>kind of "module" construct.
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>It is also worth considering how support for Java, Fortran, Ada, ... will
>be effected by the IMA work in general.  If you really want to do IMA, it
>will be important to *nail down* exactly what the representation looks
>like.
>
Exactly!

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