[antlr-interest] Help w/ Function Overloading

[Peggy Fieland]

--- Paul Johnson <gt54-antlr at cyconix.com> wrote:

> Peggy Fieland wrote:

> 
> <pedantic>
> C++ doesn't actually consider the return type.
> </pedantic>
> 

<grin> Right <goes off to get another cup of coffee>

> I have a scheme where the number of formal
> parameters is appended to the 
> function name to give a signature for the symbol
> table lookup. This 
> handles pretty much all the complexity required for
> overloading in my 
> case, but it's a pretty simple language.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

The c++/g++ is considerably more complicated -- the
types of all the parameters are encoded -- take a look
at the GNUcode for c++filt ( part of binutils) or gcc
itself.

Peggy