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Re: only force symbol lookups with local variables on hppa
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:29:41PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Actually, I'm afraid the assumption that symbols do not start with a
> dollar sign isn't true on most platforms: I just created some
> assembler code that contains such symbols and it assembles, links and
> runs fine on OpenBSD/i386. I have no doubt that the same will be true
> on other ELF systems using the GNU toolchain.
That's right; it's just not typical except on HPPA, where it involves
some symbols we actually care about (millicode routines, I think?).
Many C compilers allow dollars in the middle of symbols; they don't
allow them at the start, but the underlying assembler generally does.
ELF doesn't care at all, of course.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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