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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (              Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Cfront output (partly) explained
Message-ID: <6590021@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Feb 88 22:01:01 GMT
References: <542@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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Mmm, seems to me you'd have a problem it this area:

int foo;

...

void somthintodo
{
    int foo;
    ::foo = 5;
}

Right now the somthintodo foo is renamed by cfront to
_au_foo [or something similar] so that ::foo still has
a chance to reference back to a long since previously declared
global foo.

Unless you're proposing that cfront go back and backpatch the
global foo (possible across several compilation boundaries),
how would you address this issue? :-)