benlangmuir added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512#856301, @xazax.hun wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512#856184, @dcoughlin wrote:
>
> > In either case, the important scenario I think we should support is 
> > choosing at a call site to a C function the most likely definition of the 
> > called function, based on number and type of parameters, from multiple 
> > possible definitions in other translation units. If the API is rich enough 
> > to support this then I think that is a good indication it will be useful 
> > for other scenarios as well.
>
>
> Note that the lookup is already based on USR which is similar to mangled 
> names in a sense that it contains information about the function parameters. 
> So the only way to get multiple candidates from the lookup is having multiple 
> function definitions with the same signature.


I just want to clarify that C function USRs do not contain type information, 
although C++ USRs do.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512



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