[LLVMdev] Patch for PR4776

[Ben Ransford]

Hello,

This patch against svn r82147 "fixes" PR4776.  Certain targets (e.g.,
MSP430) allow a symbol to start with a number, e.g. "0x0021"; you can
say stuff like "mov.b &0x0021, r15" to copy a byte from memory address
0x0021 to register r15.  LLVM had been generating this ill-formed code
instead:

  mov.b   &_30_x0021, r15     # note ASCII '0' has character code 0x30

Chris suggested that I add a bool for "symbols can start with digit"
to MCAsmInfo and set it to true in the MSP430 backend, then make the
mangler and MCSymbol printer respect that bool -- so that's what I
did.

Chris blessed the patch in the Bugzilla thread, but I wanted to
solicit comments here because it's my first.  (Is my approach
reasonable?  Would a more conservative strategy, e.g., just allowing
symbols to start with "0x", suffice?)

My own comments: there's a lot of code duplication between MCSymbol
and Mangler; I'm not sure whether that's intentional or unavoidable.
I also noticed words like "name" and "symbol" being used
interchangeably and somewhat inconsistently; my patch simply follows
the naming schemes apparent in each file I touched.

-ben
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