[cfe-dev] Qualified and unqualified name lookup and IdResolver

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>>> For example, could 'enableLazyBuiltinCreation' be handled as a
>>> "lookup" on the global (or maybe a new 'builtin') scope instead of
>>> as a special case hack?
>>
>> Well, maybe. It depends somewhat on whether we want to permit
>> qualified lookup to find these names ('::__builtin_foo') or not. One
>> could imagine that they live in an imaginary scope outside of the
>> translation unit, so you can never actually find them via
>> unqualified lookup.
>
> I don't know what GCC does with this, but I would assume they are only
> ever found

Sorry, got interrupted and forgot to finish the thought:

... only ever found with unqualified name lookup. It would be  
interesting to see if ::__builtin_foo works with GCC though.

-Chris