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Re: A complexity in the mangling ABI
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>
- Cc: cxx-abi-dev at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 24 Nov 2003 12:10:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: A complexity in the mangling ABI
- References: <m34qwuirgk.fsf@gossamer.airs.com><20031124033939.GA9731@alinoe.com>
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:
> I agree that this is a lack in the ABI that cannot be solved
> by the demangler - lets just hope that the compiler WILL add
> a substitution for every order-insensitive vendor qualifier,
> unlike what the ABI says - otherwise all demanglers will break.
> If they do that, then there is no problem.
I agree, and my feeling is that the best resolution would be for the
ABI to change to encourage compilers to behave this way.
Ian