Special characters in mangled names

[Martin von Loewis]

> My preference would be to use __, since I'm interested in other platforms,
> too; we've had code in g++ to use $ or . if either was available, or __
> otherwise, and I'd prefer to just have a single case.  But I suppose I
> don't feel too strongly about it.

As Daveed points out, the double underscore in the middle can conflict
with valid C names. OTOH, a double underscore in the beginning would
make it a name reserved for the implementation.

Regards,
Martin