gcc vs g++ and linking with as

[Stephen Williams]

choward@intellistor.com said:
> Compiling with as,gcc and linking with ld works fine. Compiling with
> as,g++ and linking with ld does not work,
>   undefined symbols for those things written in assembler.

Even in C you can have troubles. What I do is use the "asm" attribute
to declare external variables, i.e.:

	extern unsigned char __index_space asm("__index_space__");

which causes __index_space__ to be the actual symbol name at link time.
A function would work like this:

	int foo(int i) asm("test_symbol");

	int foo(int i)
	{
	        return i+1;
	}

This works with (GNU) C and C++. It is a good thing to do even with C
because sometimes you get the leasing _, sometimes you don't. etc.
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