[cxx-abi-dev] __cxa_demangle of type manglings

[Mark Mitchell]

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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