assembly name collisions in C++

[Ken Raeburn]

Alex Samuel <samuel@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I believe that your code sample is illegal -- you can't declare both a
> class and a namespace foo in the same scope.  The problem isn't in the
> mangling; however, it is a bug that gcc doesn't catch the double
> declaration of foo.

Thanks.  I just bought a copy of the spec from the ANSI web site (much
cheaper than hardcopies I've gotten before!), and after looking at
some bits in section 7, I agree.  I still want to look further at how
far the prohibition against reusing the name of a namespace goes, but
clearly my example is invalid and should be caught by the compiler.

Ken