C++ ABI for IA-64: Drip, Drip

Jim Dehnert dehnert at baalbek.engr.sgi.com
Wed Aug 30 23:18:41 UTC 2000


> From oldham at codesourcery.com Fri Aug 18 15:57:21 2000
> Cc: "Jeffrey D. Oldham" <oldham at codesourcery.com>
>
> In The C++ ABI for IA-64, \S 2.9.5:
>
> Is it permissible to change the type of std::type_info::__type_name to
> const char *?  I see no reason to change its value during its
> lifetime.  It will also match the C++ standard's what () function,
> which returns a const char *.
>
> Should __virtual_table also be changed to const?

I don't feel strongly about these.  Any comments?  Let's talk about it 
tomorrow.

Jim

-		Jim Dehnert  x3-4272




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