Agenda for Thursday 2/10

[Jim Dehnert]

Following is an updated agenda for Thursday.  I will be out of town,
so Matt and/or John will run the meeting.  Please check the red text in
the abi-layout document (recently changed information) and let me know
if there are any issues -- this is relevant to A-23 below, too.

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The agenda is based on these priorities:

  A) Mangling.

  B) Data layout.

  C) Exception handling.

So, take a look at the material associated with these issues:

  1) F-*:  Mangling.  Do you have an update, Daveed?

  2) A-23:  Resolve structure of class RTTI.
     This is probably ready to close now.

  3) A-24:  Incomplete type RTTI.  Do we use a dummy COMMON pointer?
     Where do we put it in the structure, if so?  Should we ask the
     base ABI for a "unique address" symbol capability?

  4) Choose a namespace for the RTTI definitions -- std:: or abi::.

  5) A-21:  New array cookies.  When are they allocated?

  6) A-25:  Excess-width bitfields.

  7) D-12:  Unwind table location.

Issues that are active and awaiting proposals:

  a) C-4:  Coleen will write up construction vtables so we can
     verify.  Wait.  But it would be nice to tackle this if we get a
     proposal (priority 5.5 above).  Hint, hint...

Jim

-		Jim Dehnert  x3-4272