[cxx-abi-dev] mangling of UCNs

scott douglass sdouglass at arm.com
Thu Sep 19 15:17:35 UTC 2002


At 19-09-02 04:16 PM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>scott douglass <sdouglass at arm.com> writes:
>
>> Anyway, here's a fairly simple proposal.  
>
>I think any approach involving mangling is more complicated than
>necessary. Here is my proposal:
>
>Identifiers are encoded in UTF-8.

Mangling is just a synonym for "encoding" isn't it?

>That's it. It's nicely integrates C, C++, and, if needed, Java.
>It is also the "right thing", IMO.

That seems reasonable if we think all linkers are happy to eat UTF-8.  I don't have any counter examples but my sample size is approximately one.




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