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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 2 questions about C++ support in 2.2
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> Either that or Terry, like me, thought that "demange" was actually a
> far more descriptive metaphor for c++ symbol munging.  If ever
> there was a language with a serious case of the mange, it's C++.

This is the interpretation I had... it's not the language, though,
it's the linker technology.  THere's no reason to go into the
symbol name space to do symbol attribution.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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