type_info

[Jim Dehnert]

This should all be taken care of now...

Jim

> From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com>
> 
> Jeffrey noticed that the ABI specifies that the ABI says that
> std::type_info contains a public data member named `type_name'.  (This
> is in section 2.9.5.3.)
> 
> That's bad, since type_name is in the user namespace and since
> the type_info class is in the std namespace.  I think the definition
> of type_info should say:
> 
>   class type_info {
>       private:
>        void *virtual_table;
>        char *__type_name;
>   };
> 
> There should probably also be a note that the names of private data
> members are non-normative.
> 
> Also, I'm curious as to why we've made the data members of the RTTI
> classes have names in the user namespace, but the classes themselves
> have names not in the user namespace.  The net impact is that users
> cannot include cxxabi.h without being careful about the names they
> have defined, but they also have to use "__" to talk about the type
> info classes.
> 
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