Fw: [cxx-abi-dev] Decimal Floating Point mangling was(Fw: [cxx-abi-dev] C++0x: Mangling of rvalue reference type)s

[Dennis Handly]

>From: Michael Wong <michaelw at ca.ibm.com>
>While I believe this encoding is slightly better, unfortunately, we have 
>productized this based on the earlier agreement ...

>I realize this is not the best encoding, but many other single letter 
>encoding do not represent their actual names.

I thought the Standards committee is still deciding whether decimal
floating point is a builtin type or a class?

The later would just be encoded as length then name.
Of course this can be handled as "5.1.7 Compression ... abbreviations for
certain common names".

And this form is mentioned:
... the following catalog of abbreviations of the form "Sx" are used:

Or we just go with what Michael has and documented it well and point to
the "right" way to do it next time??  (And who to blame.  ;-)