GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Tue Mar 19 17:36:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk> writes:

> As the OP I would like to chip in at this point. I no longer wish for the
> API to be opened. I agree with RMS that since there is no standard for
> name mangling in C++ the most appropriate license for this code is the GPL
> rather than the LGPL.

But there IS a standard for name mangling.  And there are at least two
other vendors with compatible compilers: HP and Intel.

  http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling

Jason



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