[LLVMdev] GlobalVaraible and Function have the same name

[Gordon Henriksen]

On 2009-01-12, at 12:35, Tony Scudiero wrote:

> Am I correct in interpreting this as a constraint that no two items  
> in the ValueSymbolTable can have the same name, even if they're of  
> entirely different types (in this case Function entry point and  
> global variable) ?  Is there any way, short of renaming on our end,   
> around this? Thanks!


That's correct; LLVM does not support overloading symbols based on  
type. Neither does the linker, though. If you're implementing a high  
level language, you may need to implement name mangling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling

— Gordon