RTTI data member names, NTBS COMDAT

Martin von Loewis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Aug 31 19:47:22 UTC 2000


> Although your argument regarding the namespace is technically valid, I
> think we should consider cxxabi.h like part of the support library;
> why risk breaking a user's program that happens to use one of these
> names in some other way?

Because there is no risk. On the object file (i.e. library) level,
there can't be any conflict. If you think there is a risk, can you
give an example of a program that would break if, say,
__array_type_info was changed to array_type_info?

Regards,
Martin




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