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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 01:01:09 -0500
From: Dave Blanchard <dave@killthe.net>
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Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: Last call for bikeshedding on attribute
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On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:25:38 -0300
Alexandre Oliva via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> Attribute sym, named after symver, is the one in the latest version of
> the patch.  mnemonic_alias, convenience_alias and asm_alias are other
> possibilities that comes to mind.  The 2020-August thread has many more.

Sounds like a useful feature. Since it specifically deals with C++ name mangling, how about 'demangle'?

C++ is an abomination and name mangling is a perfect example of the brain damage surrounding this abortion of a language, but I digress...