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

Dennis Handly dhandly at cup.hp.com
Thu Jun 28 23:24:47 UTC 2007


>From: Michael Wong <michaelw at ca.ibm.com>
>Also I meant to add that for Decimal Floating Point
>     Decimal32:          "p"
>     Decimal64:          "q"
>     Decimal128:         "r"

Will that "r" conflict with C99 restrict?
This of course would be even harder to demangle.

>we looked at the holes that remain in the one letter case and
>chose this rather then multiple letters.
Michael Wong

It may be time to use double letters.  Unfortunately "D" is taken, unless
you want something like Dp Dq Dr.  Or using "B". :-)



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