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- From: Michael Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
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- Subject: Re: Name-mangling standard
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 10:23:18 -0500
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- >>>>> "JG" == John Galt <jgalt@infosoft.com> writes:
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- JG> 1. It makes it possible to have more than one function with the same name
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- You could embed all that information into the symbol name without having to
- resort to mangling, no? Linkers (and such) tend to allow only alphanumeric
- symbol names. Even an assembler could allow a kind of quoting mechanism on
- symbol names:
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- "Red::orange(int,char*)":
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- Michael.
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