llvm dev - May 2018 - Question about identifier name mangling in LLVM manual

The Identifiers section in the LLVM language manual states:

"The "\01" prefix can be used on global variables to suppress
mangling."


Is this for global variables only, or global values in general, such as
functions also? In implementation LLVM seems to have this behavior of
suppressing mangling even for functions and aliases.

Thanks,
Gautam




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Hi Gautam,

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:19 AM, Gautam Chakrabarti via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> The Identifiers section in the LLVM language manual states:
>
> “The "\01" prefix can be used on global variables to suppress
mangling.”
>
> Is this for global variables only, or global values in general, such as
> functions also? In implementation LLVM seems to have this behavior of
> suppressing mangling even for functions and aliases.
I believe it applies to all global values. I've committed an update to
the doc in r332967.

Cheers,
Hans