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

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

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> On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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?
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>>>> What's the bug?
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>>> There's no \01 prefix in the llvm-gcc version of the module.
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>> 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.
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> darwin.
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> Just checked out of curiosity :)

Ah, I didn't notice that the name was "llvm.foo".  It is entirely possible that llvm-gcc has a special hack for symbols that start with "llvm.", but I don't see it with a quick look.  This is dangerous though, because the intrinsics change over time, and not getting the right argument types would cause the middle-end to blow up.

-Chris