Bug#342126: gcc-4.0: gcc generates bad assembly code for simple code

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

Vagner Pedrotti <vpbra@yahoo.com.br> writes:

> When I compile the following simple code, gcc fails with:
> /tmp/ccySlj9q.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccySlj9q.s:56: Error: missing or invalid immediate expression `'
> taken as 0
> /tmp/ccySlj9q.s:56: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call'

This boils down to:

void f() {
    $();
}

Apparently i386 doesn't like symbols starting with $. There should
probably be a better error message, but I wouldn't give it very high
priority... Or maybe there is some way to "escape" the symbol name?

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	Falk