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To: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
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Subject: Re: [rfa] Add SYMBOL_SET_LINKAGE_NAME 
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:49:00 -0000
From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00494.txt.bz2


 > When we're talking about types, however, linkage names don't make much
 > sense, only natural names.  

Oh, I DO so hate to rock the boat, but this statement is not true in
the case of Ada, in which the natural name of a type is not how it's
known to the linker.  

I don't see why "linkage names don't make much sense" anyway: the name
of a (C/C++) type is, indeed, what the linker sees.  The fact that it
happens to coincide with the natural name in the case of C types is an
interesting fact that, perhaps "should be shielded behind this macro".

Paul