-fnew-abi and branching

[Phil Edwards]

[ sent just to gcc (times like this make me wish for working newsgroups :-) ]

> Right.  Although the new ABI will specify a mangling scheme.  I
> suspect that we'll just implement it "from scratch" since the current
> mangling code is a disaster.  We really want to get the mangling
> "right" according to the spec.  That means we can decide later whether
> to support mangling, squangling, and the new scheme -- or just some
> some subset of the three.

For those of us not intimately involved in the ABI issues, is there some
online resource (web or otherwise) describing the working spec?  I've tried
to reassure others that something like this is in the works, but for their
sake and my curiosity, some kind of reference point would be wonderful.


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Phil