On 15 Feb 2012, at 17:16, Mike Stump wrote:
On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Iain Sandoe wrote:
I noticed when working on GAS for darwin that we fail to prepend
the user label prefix for extended identifiers.
Does this match the native compiler on the platform? This is abi
changing, and we can't do it, unless it mismatches the native
compiler?
extended identifiers are not recognized by the system gcc-4.0
for gcc-4.2.1:
$ echo int \u00c0; | gcc-4.2 -std=c99 -fextended-identifiers -x c
- -S -o t.s
$ cat t.s
.section __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions
.section
__TEXT,__picsymbolstub1,symbol_stubs,pure_instructions,32
.machine ppc7400
.comm _À,4,2
.subsections_via_symbols
---^ .. this is what prompted me to make the fix.
So, this just brings us into line with the current system compiler.
AFAICT: clang does not yet support them.
As for whether it's useful/compatible with earlier tool-chains -
apparently usable for Darwin 9 [there can't be any instances in system
components there, since the system compiler is 4.0].
so - apply or not?
Iain
