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--- intro_example:name_mangling [2025/05/20 11:50] – created rajit
+++ intro_example:name_mangling [2025/05/20 12:18] (current) – [Name Mangling] rajit
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-====== Name Mangling ======
+====== Expanded names and name mangling ======
 Two useful concepts to keep in mind when using the ACT tools are //expanded names// and //mangled names//.
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 ===== Expanded names =====
-A concept one should be familiar with, especially when debugging and/or understanding error messages is the notion of expanded names. This is best illustrated with an example. Consider the following templated process definition:
+Expanded names are the names generated internally by ACT when expanding a design (or //elaborating// a design).
+This is a concept one should be familiar with, especially when debugging and/or understanding error messages.
+This is best illustrated with an example. Consider the following templated process definition:
 <code act>
 template<pint A; pbool B; pint C[A]> defproc example(...) { ... }