GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

[Mark Mitchell]

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

We're wandering into never-never land, but I do know of one other
approaches that have Really Been Used: interpretation, where the
lookup was done following the language rules, rather than by mangled
name.

In practice, though, everyone uses mangling.

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