Checked against two PSP binaries that shipped with intact symbol tables,
which turned up several constructs the format's usual description doesn't
mention:
- Template arguments are written literally inside the length-prefixed name
("39CList<Q38hlScreen5Brwsr13CContentsUnit>"), not with a "__PT" prefix,
and they nest. Function templates put theirs in the base name instead,
followed by the return type.
- A family of "@"-decorated symbols for things with no C++ name: thunks
("@12@__dt__3SonFv"), string literals, function-local statics and their
guard variables. Plus __vt__/__RTTI__/__sinit_, printed in the same style
as the Itanium special names.
- Types are now built as a split declarator, so a pointer to a function
comes out as "int (*)(int)" rather than "int (int) *".
Also stop the lenient pass from turning plain C names with a "__" in them
into nonsense - "I3dClut__FlushCache" became "I3dClut(long, ...)". It now
requires a class qualifier, which costs nothing: over ~10000 symbols the
lenient pass rescued none and only produced those false positives.
Symbol map names go from 128 to 256 characters, since a demangled name
keeps its parameters and templates make short work of 128.
docs/CodeWarriorMangling.md describes the format, marking the parts that
are inferred from cfront rather than attested in a real binary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SF5eS5QDNexLksRDeDZvwY
