[cxx-abi-dev] Decimal Floating Point mangling was(Fw: [cxx-abi-dev] C++0x: Mangling of rvalue reference type)s

[Daveed Vandevoorde]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Dennis Handly wrote:

>> From: Michael Wong <michaelw at ca.ibm.com>
>> Also I meant to add that for Decimal Floating Point
>>     Decimal32:          "p"
>>     Decimal64:          "q"
>>     Decimal128:         "r"
>
> Will that "r" conflict with C99 restrict?
> This of course would be even harder to demangle.


Although it would not be entirely ambiguous, I would very not going  
that route.



>> we looked at the holes that remain in the one letter case and
>> chose this rather then multiple letters.
> Michael Wong
>
> It may be time to use double letters.  Unfortunately "D" is taken,  
> unless
> you want something like Dp Dq Dr.  Or using "B". :-)

How about Df, Dd, Dg to parallel float, double, and __float128?

	Daveed