Re: [svn ci] NCI methods now name-mangled

[Jonathan Worthington]

Allison Randal wrote:
This is a leftover from the old days when the way to override a vtable 
method was to define a method with an '__' name, so they never 
conflicted. 
Not really - this was a conflict in the names of the methods at a C 
level. The '__' prefix was a PIR-level thing. In PIR we may have moved 
away from using name mangling to prevent the conflict, but in C that's 
probably all we've got at our disposal. Note that name of method at a C 
level and name of the method for method lookups do not have to be at all 
related.

I expect this assumption will need to be rooted out in several other 
places as well, so its worth a thorough review for the PMC PDD. 
Sure, I'm sure there's more than one way to deal with this issue, but 
for now this works and unblocks stuff.

Thanks,

Jonathan