Comment 8 for bug 21484

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: 15 Sep 2005 16:34:47 -0400
From: Camm Maguire <email address hidden>
To: Phil Blundell <email address hidden>
Cc: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: arm: Cannot handle identifiers with '$' character

Greetings! 3.4 too -- am backing off to 3.3 on arm now...
Take care,

Phil Blundell <email address hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:24 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > On arm only, gcc cannot handle C identifiers like:
> > >
> > > static void L1__GET_$ENVIRONMENT__defmacro()
> >
> > please could you (or somebody having access to an arm machine) check,
> > if the problem exists in gcc-3.4 and/or gcc-snapshot as well?
> >
> > if these fail as well, is it possible to build the package using
> > gcc-3.3 on arm?
>
> >From what Camm told me before, it sounds like this problem only exists
> in gcc-4.0.
>
> I haven't investigated this issue at all, but at a first guess I would
> say this is caused by the patches to support the new ARM EABI (in which
> all identifiers containing $ are reserved). We should probably back out
> that change in Debian, at least for the time being.
>
> p.
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