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- Date: 12 Jan 96 17:18:45 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
- From: solution@gate.net (Ken Walter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Name-mangling standard
- X-Original-Date: 12 Jan 1996 12:42:45 GMT
- Organization: Solution Technology
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- In message <DL1pqE.KKq@infosoft.com> - jgalt@infosoft.com (John Galt) writes:
-
- :>> I certainly hope not! Name mangling is a solution to passing type
- :>> information to 1950's linkers. Once linkers become more sophisticated,
- :>> name mangling can disappear back into the slime from which it came.
- :>
- :>I beg to differ. Name mangling serves several indispensible functions:
-
- :>In short, wanting to eliminate name mangling is like wanting a compiler that
- :>never prints error messages. It's for people who would rather walk off a
- :>cliff than have someone tell them they're about to.
-
- Yes, but linkers should hide the fact that names are mangled by only printing
- the unmangled version. The user should NEVER see the mangled names
- but should see the "declaration" instead.
-
- Linkers should also NOT limit the name lengths but I expect this to fade away
- eventually.
-
- Ken Walter
-
- * All the above is hearsay and the opinion of nobody in particular
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