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| author | mmitchel <mmitchel@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2004-03-02 17:02:13 +0000 |
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| committer | mmitchel <mmitchel@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2004-03-02 17:02:13 +0000 |
| commit | 8e1db42efd7438c1c85319b7f76a96b2f96ba219 (patch) | |
| tree | f4b3c90cd460907dee5d9cf01810565aa699fcdb | |
| parent | 6e9ae8704ce095a48d059ba36e9672e0ba87c0f6 (diff) | |
| download | gcc-8e1db42efd7438c1c85319b7f76a96b2f96ba219.tar.gz | |
* doc/c-tree.texi (DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME): Mention that using this
macro results in memory allocation.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@78767 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 0a6a908ce64..2df466298fe 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-03-02 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> + + * doc/c-tree.texi (DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME): Mention that using this + macro results in memory allocation. + 2004-03-02 David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> * config/freebsd-spec.h (FBSD_DYNAMIC_LINKER): Add. diff --git a/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi b/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi index d1afe655c76..8cd059e3e5c 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi @@ -1105,6 +1105,13 @@ platform, it is the responsibility of the back end to perform those modifications. (Of course, the back end should not modify @code{DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME} itself.) +Using @code{DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME} will cause additional memory to be +allocated (for the mangled name of the entity) so it should be used +only when emitting assembly code. It should not be used within the +optimizers to determine whether or not two declarations are the same, +even though some of the existing optimizers do use it in that way. +These uses will be removed over time. + @item DECL_EXTERNAL This predicate holds if the function is undefined. |