[cxx-abi-dev] C++0x POD

[Mark Mitchell]

Dennis Handly wrote:
>> From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery.com>
>> I still think that hashing mangled names down to
>> 1024-bit hashes would win
> 
> Would we be able to demangle them?  Or would we have to keep a database of
> them?

No, you'd have an optional, unloaded ELF section with the full mangled
names.  So, you could demangle unstripped binaries.  You'd win big on
startup time with big hairy C++ applications using lots of big hairy C++
libraries since your dynamic loader would never have to do comparisons
on long names.

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