https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105426
--- Comment #5 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #3) > possibly combining IDENTIFIER_POINTER with DECL_UID might be easier for > debugging things later it does make debugging easier (one reason I was using decl_uid) but Jakub points out that this might not be stable for -fcompare-debug, so we've used a sequence number.