GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-03-24)

[Mark Mitchell]

Eric Botcazou wrote:
>>OK.  (FWIW, you're not on the CC: list for that PR either.)

> Sorry, I only wanted to explain why the patch is still pending.  About your 
> question: am I right in thinking that the real name is the name as written 
> in the assembly file?  If so, that's what is now implemented in 4.x.

Yes, I think that makes sense.

I'm a little concerned about the fact that (in theory) DECL_NAME could 
have spaces, or other assembler-unfriendly characters.  I'm not sure 
what to do in that circumstance; it's probably impossible to do anything 
better than we do now, without the assembler providing some kind of 
special support.  (I'm not actually sure what the assembler does with 
the name; presumably puts it in debug information.)

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