Re: [Opencxx-users] symbol lookup in Environment

[Grzegorz J. <ja...@he...>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >
> >
> >>hi there,
> >>
> >>I'm looking at the Environment::LookupType method implementation
> >>and I'm wondering why it contains a loop over HashTable::HashEntries().
> >>How can a single symbol result in multiple entries ? Any multiple
> >>definition of a symbol (forward declarations don't count) in the same
> >>scope is an error, isn't it ?
> >>What am I missing ?
> >
> >
> > Overloading?
> aren't symbols stored by their encoded name, which contains the signature ?

If not overloading, then maybe the fact, that OpenC++ cuts corners on type
analysis, which results in encodings of different functions look the same?
E.g.

    void g( char (*)[5] ) {}

and

    void g( char (*)[6] ) {}

?

I cannot come up with less convoluted example...

BR
Grzegorz

##################################################################
# Grzegorz Jakacki                       Huada Electronic Design #
# Senior Engineer, CAD Dept.              1 Gaojiayuan, Chaoyang #
# tel. +86-10-64365577 x2074               Beijing 100015, China #
# Copyright (C) 2004 Grzegorz Jakacki, HED. All Rights Reserved. #
##################################################################