[cfe-dev] Strange character around function declared with "asm"

[Eric Christopher]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>>>>>> Apparently clang is mangling it this way on purpose as far as I can
>>>>>> tell... I'm not really sure why though.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The gnu "asm renaming" extension says that USER_LABEL_PREFIX is not prefixed onto the symbol name.  The \1 prefix on the LLVM name tells the backend (through the 'Mangler' class) not to add it.
>>>> 
>>>> Interesting. llvm-gcc bug then?
>>> 
>>> What's the bug?
>> 
>> There's no \01 prefix in the llvm-gcc version of the module.
> 
> On linux or darwin?  IIRC, on linux there is no USER_LABEL_PREFIX so it doesn't matter if there is a \1 or not.

darwin.

Just checked out of curiosity :)

-eric