Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.DLL] Formal Review request
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-10-08 05:23:46
On 07/10/14 19:31, Niall Douglas wrote:
> Your DLL library could provide a portable method for auto generating
> aliases with the Itanium ABI. As I mentioned, it is fairly trivial to
> write some metaprogramming which will output an Itanium mangling for
> some input type. You just then need to regex in the fully qualified
> name of the item, and finally run a pass collapsing repetition (a
> regex matcher will suffiice). Itanium is very logical, no surprises.
> I keep a quick cheat sheet document on symbol mangling at
> https://github.com/ned14/NiallsCPP11Utilities/blob/master/demanglers/c
> alling_conventions.pdf, you may find it useful. The official
> http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling isn't bad
> either.
Since you seem to know the subject matter very well yourself, wouldn't
it be better if you could contribute that component?