On 3/31/16 9:38 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 31 March 2016 at 13:10:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Voldemort types are what cause the bloat, templates inside templates
aren't as much of a problem.
So here's an idea of other things don't work out: voldemort types don't
have a name that can be said... that could be true in the mangle too.
We could potentially just hash it to some fixed length. Take the
existing name, SHA1 it, and call the mangle
function_containing_type$that_hash. Demangling the inside is useless
anyway, so we lose nothing from that.
Ugh, let's try the huffman coding thing first :) Stack traces would be
unusable.
However, this does seem promising if that doesn't work out. The hash
would definitely solve the linking and binary size issue.
A possible thing the compiler *could* do is place inside the binary a
hash-to-actual-symbol table that the exception printer can utilize to
print a nicer stack trace...
-Steve
