GCC 4.0 Status Report (2005-03-24)

[Eric Botcazou]

> 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.)

I can speak for the SPARC 64-bit assembler: it creates a special ELF symbol 
for it (STB_GLOBAL, STT_REGISTER, SHN_UNDEF).

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Eric Botcazou