Re: [PATCH] PR libstdc++/13045 / C++ demangler, floating values and function pointer type return type postfix fix.

[Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | I am getting tired of this disussion... when are people
> | putting floating point values at all in template parameters?
> 
> Because it is part of well-formed expressions?  

So far I could only manage to get a float into a symbol
by casting it directly to an int...  well-formed, but
not very practically.  I am not saying that the compiler
should ICE - I am just saying that we are REALLY wasting
our time with this with regard to demangling issues:
demangling is practical stuff, not theoretical.

But, perhaps I am missing something and there are useful
ways of putting a float in a symbol name.  If so, please
inform me.

Also, I didn't say that I think that the discussion on
ABI change is a waste of time; if the ABI will be changed
(I didn't know we had the power to do that, I thought
it was a real standard, or is it?), then it has to be
thought well over of course.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>