[LLVMdev] RFC: Mangling Unnamed Global Values

[Devang Patel]

On Nov 24, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Bill Wendling wrote:
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>> The symbols I'm interested in already have internal linkage (as you
>> would expect). But because the mangler is in charge of assigning them
>> names, they never seem to be decorated with the 'L' in front. . . .
>
> If you use SET_DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME (something like that) you can
> specify the full name for this stuff, including the L.  This is how
> other Objc metadata works.

Yup.  see start_var_decl() in objc-act.c and its uses of  
set_user_assembler_name().
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Devang