A standard C++ technique that involves modifying a function name with extra characters that indicate the exact type of each function parameter is called___________.

Question

Options are

a. Name Decoration

b. Name Mangling

c. Name Translation

d. None of these

Answer 1

The answer is "Name Mangling".

That is how the C++ compiler deals with polymorphism.

For example, consider these two functions

void f(void);

void f(int);

They have the same name "f", but are actually different functions,

and need to be treated as if they had different names.

So the compiler "mangles" the name "f" by attaching to it the types

of the arguments.

This results in the two functions getting distinct "mangled" names.