/*
 * BridJ - Dynamic and blazing-fast native interop for Java.
 * http://bridj.googlecode.com/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Olivier Chafik (http://ochafik.com/)
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/**
 * BridJ symbols demanglers.
 * <p>
 * BridJ adheres to a "reverse burder of proof" philosophy : rather than asking
 * binding makers (including JNAerator) to write/generate the exact expected
 * symbols in {@link org.bridj.ann.Symbol} annotations, it parses the mangled
 * symbols and sees how / if they match binding signatures. Manual specification
 * of exact symbols is still possible in case of ambiguity or when demangling
 * fails.
 * <p>
 * As a consequence, BridJ needs symbols demanglers, which have to parse symbols
 * and spit out (partial) methods and types signatures.<br>
 * It currently has demanglers for :
 * <ul>
 * <li>Microsoft Visual C++ (2008, 2010)
 * </li><li>GCC 4.x (which mangling scheme is fortunately shared by Intel's C++
 * compiler) : its mangling scheme does not include the return type of functions
 * / methods, which is infortunate (would have allowed dynamic languages to call
 * C++ without explicit bindings, otherwise :-( )
 * </li>
 * </ul>
 */
package org.bridj.demangling;
