objdump : inaccurate demangling for foo(char* const)

[Nathan Sidwell]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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>>So, is it inaccuracy or convention?
> 
> 
> Convention, I guess.
yes.

both foo1 (char *) and foo2 (char * const) have the same type - top
level cv qualifiers are ignored on parameters. If you called both
'foo' g++ would complain. The ABI's mangling mangles indistinguishable
functions in the same way (notice the return type is not mangled
either).

nathan

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