Does anybody know if C++0x is going to change C++ name
mangling at all? Such as, standardizing name mangling instead
of leaving it up to the compiler?
C++ does not, and in fact, cannot define implementation details.
There are too many differences at the architecture level to make
this practical.
Specific platforms can, and occasionally do, define a platform
specific C++ API. Regretfully, far too occasionally---there
isn't one for either Solaris/Sparc nor Windows/PC, and as far as
I know, only an ad hoc one for Linux/PC. (All platforms I know
do defined a platform specific API for C.)
And of course, any time the API differs, you want some sort of
differing conventions for name mangling, so that you don't
accidentally link code which won't work together. (I'm not
aware of any case where the API's are identical, but the name
mangling isn't. I would consider the name mangling part of the
API. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if different
languages---e.g. Pascal and C---under Windows mangled the names
in the same way, despite using different calling conventions.
It was, at least, a problem under MS-DOS.)
