[cxx-abi-dev] Mangling of calling convention attributes

[Nick Lewycky]

On 6 May 2015 at 07:57, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/06/2015 08:49 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
>
>> The reason we chose Ua rather than U was that the ABI suggests that U4blah
>> should demangle as 'blah', whereas we want something that demanglers know
>> should become '__attribute__((blah))'. I have no particular strong
>> feelings
>> here.
>>
>
> Hmm, I don't think this is a useful distinction; what matters is the
> calling convention, not whether it was written with a GNU __attribute, a
> C++11 [[attribute]], a decl-specifier, or whatever.


The idea was to scope them, so Ua would be for attributes and we'd still
have room for Uc for calling conventions if we want some day.


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