Re: A complexity in the mangling ABI

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlo Wood <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I agree that this is a lack in the ABI that cannot be solved
> by the demangler - lets just hope that the compiler WILL add
> a substitution for every order-insensitive vendor qualifier,
> unlike what the ABI says - otherwise all demanglers will break.
> If they do that, then there is no problem.

I agree, and my feeling is that the best resolution would be for the
ABI to change to encourage compilers to behave this way.

Ian