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I've seen a lot of mentions like this one that Sun has patented their name mangling scheme for C++.

It's certainly true that Sun's name mangling is much more efficient than the scheme used by IBM's xlC compiler, for example.

But I can't find the actual patent anywhere. Does anyone have the patent #, or a link to the patent?

Thanks!

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Are you talking about this?

Dillie-O
No -- I'd found that one, but it only refers to the mangling patent as one of the boxes in a flowchart. Thanks though.
Mike G.
+1  A: 

Here is what I came up using Patents.com.

I searched for "mangling c++" in the description and for "sun" in the Assignee Name.

Nothing comes up when searching for "differential mangling"

David Segonds
That's not it, but it is interesting, thanks.
Mike G.