[cxx-abi-dev] Mangling of string literals versus variadic templates

[Richard Smith]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Richard Smith <richardsmith at google.com>
> wrote:
> > Consider:
>
> Remind me why it’s impossible to go back to the committee and repeatedly
> weaken any remaining guarantees about string literal addresses until none
> of this is important?


If you really want to go that way, how about striking this mangling from
the Itanium ABI entirely and replacing it with a note saying that we
believe this is a standard defect and aren't going to support it? Is a weak
and defective spec here (only implemented by a single frontend, as far as I
can tell) any better than no spec at all?
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