Win x86 name mangling

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On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 13:12:07 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Can anybody tell me why on Win32 (but not Win64!) we emit 
> function symbols with leading "\01" and with an extra leading 
> "_" ?

Rainer should know. IIRC, there's a comment saying that this 
prevents LLVM from tampering with the name (based on calling 
convention).