[cfe-dev] [GSoC] "Microsoft Visual C++ ABI support in Clang" proposal

[Aaron Gray]

On 29 March 2011 20:15, Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> wrote:

> On 3/29/11 10:37 AM, Ted Kremenek wrote:
> > On Mar 28, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> >
> >> Did you investigate the legal status of the pieces of VC++ ABI?
> >
> > This one should not be ignored.  If any of these pieces are proprietary
> (in a legal sense) then that is a potential major impediment to putting any
> of this work into the open source tree.
> I looked around and couldn't find anything. I even looked on the USPTO
> website. Still nothing.
>
> Looks right now like we are go for this.
>

Interesting WikiPedia article of Visual C++ name mangling :-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Name_Mangling

Aaron
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