Mangling: Allocating constructors
Martin von Loewis
loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Mar 16 12:30:01 UTC 2000
> 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).
If that is an extension, then code relying on it being generated is
not ABI compliant, of course...
Martin
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