[cxx-abi-dev] __cxa_demangle of type manglings

Jason Merrill jason at redhat.com
Fri Feb 11 22:55:09 UTC 2005


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:03:10 -0800, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Jason Merrill wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that the specified behavior makes __cxa_demangle useless for
>> type manglings, since most of them are also valid C++ identifiers, and
>> therefore could be an extern "C" object name.  I think that the ambiguity
>> should be resolved the other way by default, and that we should add another
>> way to specify that the argument is an external name, probably via another
>> entry point.
>
> I agree.  Would you like to propose a change to the ABI document?

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