GCC to open the C++ demangle API?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Mar-2002, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > 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.

For the .NET CLR, name mangling is not used; the underlying assembler,
object file format, and linker directly support overloading.

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