Re: [Valgrind-developers] Bug 73655 fix

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Robert Walsh wrote:

> The dollar symbols are legal in symbols in gcc, believe
> it or not.  We use them to delimit bits of the symbol.  The two numbers
> following it are hex digits of a character that isn't legal in a symbol,
> so $3A == ':' and $2E == '.'.  So this function is:
>
>   soname:libc.so.6:__raise
>
> This is plucked apart by the scanning code to set up the intercept
> table.  This basically says "the function called
> _vgi__soname$3Alibc$2Eso$2E6$3A__raise is an intercept for __raise in
> the shared object called libc.so.6."
>
> Ugly, but it works. :-)  If you can think of a cleaner mechanism, I'd
> like to hear about it.

I probably would have just replaced them with underscores, but hey, if it
works... it's not like any compiler other than GCC can compile Valgrind.

N