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Re: [c++] Another question about demangler output
Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
| > From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
| > Date: 08 Dec 2003 00:18:52 +0100
|
| ...
| > It is an ODR violation (even if no diagnostic is
| > required). If you mangle them differently, then you can catch that
| > violation.
|
| Mangling really isn't a good way to detect ODR violations. If you
| mangle two things the same, then you can have two declarations that
| don't match and are undetected; if you mangle two things differently,
| then you can have two definitions that are undetected.
At least, they don't get used one in place of the other. I find that
a much lesser evil than treating two different things as same.
-- Gaby