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| author | Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> | 2004-03-02 17:02:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Mitchell <mmitchel@gcc.gnu.org> | 2004-03-02 17:02:13 +0000 |
| commit | bdc2893ce826f67f466aa0f5b214ddfd4b312222 (patch) | |
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c-tree.texi (DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME): Mention that using this macro results in memory allocation.
* doc/c-tree.texi (DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME): Mention that using this
macro results in memory allocation.
From-SVN: r78767
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi b/gcc/doc/c-tree.texi index d1afe65..8cd059e 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. |