Special characters in mangled names

[Jonathan Schilling]

> From: Christophe de Dinechin <ddd at cup.hp.com>
> 
> > Two weeks ago we made some initial discussions about what special
> > characters we could us as an "escape encoding" for mangled names
> > (in cfront and cfront-like models, a double underscore is used,
> > but it seems desirable to instead have a convention that cannot
> > collide with C identifiers at all).
> 
> Is it really desirable? It did not cause a problem so-far, and there  
> are occasions where being able to define a C++ function in C or  
> assembly is useful. 

Agreed.  SCO's OS has at least one place where we have to refer
to a mangled name from C.  

Jonathan Schilling		SCO, Inc.		jls at sco.com