C++ ABI: Mangling of call_expr

[Nathan Sidwell]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>But what is a CALL_EXPR? Its two-letter mangled name is "cl", but it
>>>certainly can't be either unary, binary, or trinary. In fact, in
>>>operators.def, it is defined with arity "-1", which means "any arity is
>>>allowed". But then, I can't see which production is supposed to use.
> 
> 
>>looks like a bug in the ABI spec. To be demanglable, there must be a count
>>of the number of parameters encoded.
>>Mark, have I missed something?
> 
> 
> Since we are at it, I think the ABI is also missing a description of how to
> mangle a call to a constructor.
Isn't that just the same as a call with a funny name?


It's missing a description of all member function calls, and of calls like
	(expr).Foo ();
where Foo turns out to be a static member -- where do I put the mangling
for 'expr'?

nathan
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