[Opencxx-users] Encoding ambiguities

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

[I sent this mail originally last summer (08/2004), but
  didn't get any response. Hoping that this time someone
  will listen I send it again.]


hi there,

while trying to enhance the Encoding API I'm looking
at examples of encoded names I'll have to deal with.
Doing that I find that

::A::B<A::Int, 2>::type

maps to

Q[4][0][1]AT[1]B[9]Q[2][1]A[3]Int*[4]type

The point that worries me is the '*', which, according
to the docs refers to a 'non-type template parameter'.

That means types aren't represented unambiguously, as
'A<1>' will generate the same symbol as 'A<2>'. However,
when doing symbol lookup, I obviously have to distinguish the
two.

Was that an oversight in OpenCxx ? Or was that deliberately
left out as full symbol lookup wasn't done anyways ?
Any ideas as to how to fix this ? Chiba ?

Speaking of ambiguities in the Encoding class, I earlier
this year reported the missing array dimensions, but didn't
get feedback on this. Is there any interest into a fix ?

Regards,
		Stefan