GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:

> <This does not appear to be a standard to me.
> I would call it a documented convention for the Itanium environment.
> I do like the documentation though, especially the use of BNF.
> Thankyou for drawing my attention to this. If only this would be adopted
> by ISO.> 

> To me it would seem a bit odd for ISO to adopt this as part of the language
> definition. Is it really the case that name mangling has anything whatsoever
> to do with the C++ language. To me it is just a low level implementation
> approach to solving low level implementation problems, and is definitely
> not the only approach.

True, though I'm not aware of other approaches.  But I definitely agree
that this stuff has no place in the language standard.

Jason