g++ 2.95 typeinfo::name()

Mike Stump mrs@windriver.com
Mon Jan 22 11:09:00 GMT 2001


> To: Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com>
> Cc: aoliva@redhat.com, rssh@gvinpin.grad.kiev.ua, Oliver.Kellogg@vs.dasa.de,
>         gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
> Date: 22 Jan 2001 19:45:43 +0100

> | The standard is irrelevant in this case.  What Oliver said must be
> | true, must be true, really.  Just meeting the standard is fine in many
> | cases, however, at times, we do want to do more than the standard.

> You're making a wish and I understand that.

No, I'm doing more than that.  I am stating a release requirement, and
also stating the current behavior of our compiler, and I suspect every
C++ compiler out there.

> But that doesn't make the current behaviour a bug as far as the
> standard is concerned.

I know that.  Maybe you thought I was commenting on the demangled
version of the name, I was not.  I was merely commenting on the
already implemented behavior of the compiler and Alexandre's remark.


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