manged /mahnjd/ n.
[probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to
eat; perhaps influenced by English `mange', `mangy'] adj. Refers
to anything that is mangled or damaged, usually beyond repair.
"The disk was manged after the electrical storm." Compare mung.
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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.
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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".