# pre-RFC: a new symbol mangling scheme

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-a-new-symbol-mangling-scheme/8501>\
**Category:** compiler\
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-a-new-symbol-mangling-scheme/8501 "2018-10-01T12:56:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-a-new-symbol-mangling-scheme/8501/87 "2018-11-06T11:50:34Z")

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I think we’ll want to provide the option in the compiler to emit completely opaque symbols (something like plain 160bit hashes) for this case. But I don’t think that that would be a good default.

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