Mangling: Allocating constructors

Jim Dehnert dehnert at baalbek.engr.sgi.com
Wed Mar 15 21:56:10 UTC 2000


> From: Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de>
> 
> I see that the current proposal specifies C3 and C4 for allocating
> constructors. I think this is contradiction to the resolution of issue
> C-6, which said that allocation is done by the caller.

After a brief discussion last week, we opened a new issue at HP's
request to consider whether to _also_ support allocating constructors,
with a low priority (i.e. we'll worry about it later).  We observed
that there's nothing to prevent an implementation from adding an
allocating constructor, though the ABI doesn't require it, and the
mangling for them was intended to allow consistent names if that
happens (although an agreement on parameters would also be required).

Jim

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