Re: name-mangling

[Guy Harrison]

Chetan wrote:

It's compiler specific.

> Why

Consider...

int foo(void)
void foo(const char[])

When you call foo() the compiler will attempt to invoke the appropriate
function but, as they're both called "foo", which is it to call? The "foo"
symbol gets mangled (changed to another name) that both describes "foo"
plus the arguments/return values that "foo" takes.

> and how name-mangling is done in c++? 

Implementation defined. If you can invent a workable name-mangler then yours
is as valid as everyone else's.