Bad linker behaviour

Thu Oct 9 16:37:00 GMT 1997

 From: marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com
 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:41:54 -0600
 When gcc compiles a file, there are two symbols that it adds to the object
 module, `___gnu_compiled_c' and `gcc2_compiled.'. For a C++ file, I see
 that `__gnu_compiled_cplusplus' and `gcc2_compiled.' are defined. So, it
 seems that ld could watch for `___gnu_compiled_c' in an object file and
 flag it for removing the leading '_' on symbols from that module, and
 if it sees `__gnu_compiled_cplusplus' it would demangle symbols from that
 object module, otherwise it would leave the symbol alone.
That sounds like a plausible idea to me. I'm not sure how difficult
it would be to implement: I believe that there are a number of cases
that print a symbol name which do not have any record of which module
it was defined in.
I don't plan to implement this myself, but I would be happy to look at
patches for it.
Ian
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