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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 10:05:01AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> It seems to me (as a casual reader who does not use C++ much),
> that the fact that "type safe linkage" is encoding the "name" of the 
> type rather than the "type" is sub-optimal. If what was encoded
> was "unsigned integer of 32-bits" then the two size_t-s would match.

Unfurtunately, C++ allows a function to be overloaded based on
the type, and thus the mangling scheme must allow both f(int)
and f(long) to exist.  Which would not be possible if the mangling
were done based on width.


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