Re: Eliminating Name Mangling in GCC

[Thomas]

Peter B Du Bois wrote:
> Toolset: Tornado with GCC version 2.96.
>
> Problem: How to avoid the name mangling of global symbols that GCC
>       performs.
>
> The solution appears to be use of the compiler switch,
> “-frandom–seed=string”, however the compiler declares that switch as
> invalid.
>
> Any thoughts on a solution would be most appreciated.
>
> Peter
>                                      
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Are you trying to load dynamic libraries?

One way to get rid of the name mangling would be to use extern C 
{...stuff not to be mangled...}

There is another example here 
http://www.isotton.com/howtos/C++-dlopen-mini-HOWTO/C++-dlopen-mini-HOWTO.html#mangling