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In the old days C++ pre-processed into C. Then you had to run a special linker to handle how the preprocessor created class part names.
by peter303 5y ago
In the old days C++ pre-processed into C. Then you had to run a special linker to handle how the preprocessor created class part names.
- gpderetta 5y agoI thought that the old point of C++ mangling was that it could use existing linker tech. Do you have some references? Also, my understanding is that, except for the very first few prototypes, starting from cfront on the C++ compiler was a real compiler. It just happened to target C instead of asm.