(C++) mangling vector types

[Jason Merrill]

On 11/12/2009 11:50 AM, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 11/12/2009 08:35 AM, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>> I'd favor this if you can emit aliases with the old names wherever this
>>> is possible and currently done.
>>
>> I suppose if we unconditionally use the new mangling and emit a weak
>> alias with the old mangling, old external references will resolve to
>> somthing, so code that only uses one vector size will continue to work;
>
> Really? How'd you create code with the new compiler and older libraries
> which only provide definitions for the old names?

Ah, good point.  That would require some sort of "really weak definition".

Jason