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hardC++Itanium ABI and name manglingSingle-choice MCQ

The Itanium ABI uses 'substitutions' (S_, S0_, S1_, ...) in name mangling. What problem do these substitution entries primarily solve?

// e.g. void f(std::string, std::string) // mangles roughly as _Z1fSsSs (Ss == std::string, reused)