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Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: jason at redhat dot com (Jason Merrill)
- Cc: apm35 at student dot open dot ac dot uk (Andrew Marlow), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:15:28 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk> writes:
> > As the OP I would like to chip in at this point. I no longer wish for the
> > API to be opened. I agree with RMS that since there is no standard for
> > name mangling in C++ the most appropriate license for this code is the GPL
> > rather than the LGPL.
Jason Merrill writes:
> But there IS a standard for name mangling. And there are at least two
> other vendors with compatible compilers: HP and Intel.
>
> http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling
Furthermore RMS has already agreed to change the license, so this issue is
now moot and we can argue about something else. :-)