mangled name: n. A name, appearing in a C++ object file, that
is a coded representation of the object declaration as it appears in
the source. Mangled names are used because C++ allows multiple
objects to have the same name, as long as they are distinguishable
in some other way, such as by having different parameter types.
Thus, the internal name must have that additional information
embedded in it, using the limited character set allowed by most
linkers. For instance, one popular compiler encodes the standard
library function declaration "memchr(const void*,int,unsigned int)"
as "@memchr$qpxviui".
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