[cxx-abi-dev] mangling vector types

Mark Mitchell mark at codesourcery.com
Tue Nov 10 20:54:56 UTC 2009


Jason Merrill wrote:

>  Dv <length> <element type>
> 
> So I think that we want to just give the length.  But should it be in
> terms of elements or bytes?

I agree: length, not log2(length).

I think number of elements, not bytes, though; for all processors I know
of bytes = length * sizeof(element_type), so using bytes is just a less
compact encoding with no increase in information.

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