Special characters in mangled names

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Daveed" == Daveed Vandevoorde <daveed at edg.com> writes:

    Daveed> The period (".") was mentioned.  Does that work for all
    Daveed> the IA-64 assemblers (and similar tools) out there?

The `$' is supported by many assemblers.  The problem is that
characters supported by assemblers for this purpose are often
supported as extensions to the corresponding C compilers; there are
certainly compilers that allow `$' in C function names.

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