// the function symbol 'name', logging an error for a malformed
// attribute clause if 'issueError' is true. The return value is a
// (boolean, ABI) pair indicating that the named symbol is either
// static or a particular ABI specification.
//
// The expected form of the attribute clause is:
//
// empty,           yielding (false, obj.ABI0)
// "<>",            yielding (true,  obj.ABI0)
// "<ABI0>"         yielding (false, obj.ABI0)