A complexity in the mangling ABI

Ian Lance Taylor ian at wasabisystems.com
Mon Nov 24 17:10:47 UTC 2003


Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> writes:

> I agree that this is a lack in the ABI that cannot be solved
> by the demangler - lets just hope that the compiler WILL add
> a substitution for every order-insensitive vendor qualifier,
> unlike what the ABI says - otherwise all demanglers will break.
> If they do that, then there is no problem.

I agree, and my feeling is that the best resolution would be for the
ABI to change to encourage compilers to behave this way.

Ian



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