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bruce343434 61 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Solod: Go can be a better C

C++ compilers do this too, thats why so many to-be-linked symbols start with "Z"

ventana 61 days ago [–]

Not only for the conflicts, but mostly to encode the parameter types into the name for method overloading, because the linker has no idea about it.

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