[cxx-abi-dev] __cxa_demangle of type manglings

Mark Mitchell mark at codesourcery.com
Thu Feb 17 20:37:14 UTC 2005


Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:03:10 -0800, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jason Merrill wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It seems to me that the specified behavior makes __cxa_demangle useless for
>>>type manglings, since most of them are also valid C++ identifiers, and
>>>therefore could be an extern "C" object name.  I think that the ambiguity
>>>should be resolved the other way by default, and that we should add another
>>>way to specify that the argument is an external name, probably via another
>>>entry point.
>>
>>I agree.  Would you like to propose a change to the ABI document?

I installed this change.

Thanks,

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