On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:12 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Jerry Quinn wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 08:43 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > >> On 08/17/2009 07:40 PM, Jerry Quinn wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 16:16 -0400, Jason Merrill wrote: > >>>> I'm not sure why GCC sources would need to mangle function-local > >>>> structs, though. > >> Would it be helpful to reserve a leading character (say, "*") that means > >> that strcmp should not apply, but rather pointer identity? Thus a class > >> foo that is intended to be local, as opposed to forced local via > >> RTLD_LOCAL, can just use "*foo" and not have to bother with mangling? > > > > I took a (very naive) swing at implementing this. I made the change in > > my copy of r149964 to avoid the possibility of other issues interfering. > > Apparently my change is too naive, because the assembler doesn't like a > > name with '*' in it. Are there any chars that can pass muster with > > assemblers but not be a valid namespace identifier? > > Don't you just want to arrange things so that the asterisk ends up in the > typeinfo name string but not in the asm name?
Well, it WAS a very naive attack on the problem :-) Where can I look to set the typeinfo name without setting the asm name? Thanks, Jerry
