Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've actually discovered that we set the assembler name on a field that > is the vtable, but never actually use it again, at least for DWARF2 and > STABS (it's set to a constant called VFIELD_NAME). > I grepped .s file from all of libjava and the stl testcases compared > with -gstabs and -gdwarf-2, and none of them contain VFIELD_NAME with or > without my change.
This appears to be mostly vestigial old ABI stuff. VFIELD_NAME_P is used to special-case the vtable pointer in the default copy constructor and assignment operator (see cp/method.c: do_build_copy_constructor, do_build_assign_ref respectively) but that can and probably should be changed. Even if it's kept, it would suffice to use the DECL_NAME, not the DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME, for that. zw
