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

[Eric Christopher]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> 
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Is there a reason for the quotation marks (") and the \01 before the
>>> intrinsic call? I tried to get the same assembly from llvm-gcc, and in
>>> that case there are no quotation marks or other artefacts.
>> 
>> 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?

-eric