dollars-in-identifiers on ARM, was: Creating and using GCJ ARM cross compiler

Mon Apr 21 11:34:00 GMT 2008

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > error: stray '$' in program
> > [error repeated a lot of times]
> >
> > If I add "-fdollars-in-identifiers" to my compile statement, it
> > completes without error, but I would expect this not to be necessary.
>> Well, it is. For some reason I could never understand, it's needed on arm.
> I added -fdollars-in-identifiers in several places in the libgcj build.
The reason for this is probably that gcc/config/arm/aout.h has:
/* Arm Assembler barfs on dollars. */
#define DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS 0
See also http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24111 which if I
read it correctly says that what is done with GCJ on ARM violates EABI
rules...
Is this something that can/should be fixed?
Regards,
Matthijs