[cxx-abi-dev] A mangling ambiguity

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com> writes:

| > Conversely, if demangling a mangled named shows an ambiguity then that
| > means we can't determine the original entity name.  No?
| 
| Perhaps in a theoretical sense, but not in a practical sense.  Demanglers
| tend to be pretty dumb; they just kind of process the input text as text.
| It might be that disambiguating would be a lot more work than goes on in
| your typical demangler.

I was planning to use a demengler as a utility to implement plug-ins;
now, if mangling would be many-to-one...

Anyway, thanks.

-- Gaby