Re: Name mangling

Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
6 Jul 2001 16:29:02 -0400

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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Jul 2001 16:29:02 -0400
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: 01-07-008 01-07-027 01-07-038
Keywords: C++ GCC
Posted-Date: 06 Jul 2001 16:29:02 EDT

Fergus Henderson wrote:


> Young Wei Kuan wrote:


> > I understand g++ 3.0 has changed its name-mangling scheme.
> > [...] Why is it that object code compiled by g++ 2.95 is incompatible with
> > that of gcc3.0?


> Object code compiled by g++ 2.95 is incompatible with that of g++ 3.0
...
> However, I don't know if that is what motivated changes in name
> mangling between g++ 2.95 and g++ 3.0,


Indeed, it's not the only reason. One of the more important reasons to
change the name mangling is that the new one is more efficient (leads to
shorter mangled names). At least, that's what I recall - IANAC++Guru.


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