Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In software compiler engineering, name mangling (sometimes called name decoration) is a technique used to solve various problems caused by the need to resolve unique names for programming entities in many modern programming languages. It provides a way of encoding additional inform ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In software compiler engineering, name mangling (sometimes called name decoration) is a technique used to solve various problems caused by the need to resolve unique names for programming entities in many modern programming languages. It provides a way of encoding additional information in the name of a function, structure, class or another datatype in order to pass more semantic information from the compilers to linkers. The need arises where the language allows different entities to be named with the same identifier as long as they occupy a different namespace (where a namespace is typically defined by a module, class, or explicit namespace directive).