[ABI] 128bit integers and other vendor types

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 27 July 2014 14:35, bearophile via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Iain Buclaw:
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>> BigInt is certainly on the cards for making native 128-bit support
>> possible, but it still needs to be set apart from global and function
>> symbols.  For that, it needs to finally be given a mangled identifier.
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> Is a mangled identifier also useful for partially library defined checked
> integrals (currently 4 types)?
>

I think not, and my reason for saying that is the mess of mangling C++
namespace std has on ABI.

Library types shouldn't be given special mangling treatment IMO.

Regards
Iain