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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "Type-safe" Linkage?
Keywords: C++ 2.0
Message-ID: <2188@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 19:59:42 GMT
References: <2118@leah.Albany.Edu> <4321@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <4321@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.UUCP (Joseph N. Hall) writes:
<The type information is encoded into the "mangled" function names.
<Two functions with the same name but different argument or return types
<are given distinct mangled names.

Not the return types. This is because you cannot overload functions based
on return types.