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Re: revised proposal for GCC and non-Ascii source files
- To: bothner at cygnus dot com (Per Bothner)
- Subject: Re: revised proposal for GCC and non-Ascii source files
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 99 12:36:48 PST
- Cc: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
> > we currently get '_._7myclass'. Under your proposal, we get
> > '_.._7myclass'. This is a link-incompatibility with current code.
>
> There is no need to consider "link-incompatibility with current code"
> as a requirement or even a goal for C++, only for C. The intention
> is that C++ ABI will change in the next year or so, anyway.
Just the same, we should avoid making symbol lengths unnecessarily longer.
They just eat disk space, and one of the benefits of -fnew-abi is that
it makes mangled names substantially shorter in many cases.