• Jacob Carlborg (22/22) May 30 2013 I'm doing some modifications to DMD where some symbols need to match

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

I'm doing some modifications to DMD where some symbols need to match 
what Clang outputs. I'm trying to figure out how to output absolute and 
lazy symbols. Running "nm -m" on the object file compiled with Clang 
results in this:

00000000 (absolute) external [no dead strip] .objc_class_name_Foo
          (undefined [lazy bound]) external [no dead strip] 
.objc_class_name_NSObject

Foo is defined in the object file and NSObject is externally defined. I 
had a look at the LLVM source code how these symbols are outputted. LLVM 
uses file scope inline assembly for these symbols. The assembly Clang 
generates look like this:

.section	__TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions

.objc_class_name_Foo=0
.globl .objc_class_name_Foo
.lazy_reference .objc_class_name_NSObject
.lazy_reference .objc_class_name_Foo



The above code is the top of the assembly file.

Does anyone know how to generate the same symbols in DMD?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg