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Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: "apm35 at student dot open dot ac dot uk" <apm35 at student dot open dot ac dot uk>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:43:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC to open the C++ demangle API?
- References: <wvlofhjxtw6.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com>
> True, though I'm not aware of other approaches. But I definitely agree
> that this stuff has no place in the language standard.
We're wandering into never-never land, but I do know of one other
approaches that have Really Been Used: interpretation, where the
lookup was done following the language rules, rather than by mangled
name.
In practice, though, everyone uses mangling.
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