May 15, 2003

mangle

vt.

1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotations; something that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed.

2. To produce the mangled name corresponding to a C++ declaration.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:39 AM

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