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Re: Demangling C++ global initializers and destructors
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Robert Schiele <rschiele at uni-mannheim dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:25:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: Demangling C++ global initializers and destructors
- References: <20030228144528.GA13504@schiele.local>
Robert Schiele <rschiele at uni-mannheim dot de> writes:
|> Hello.
|>
|> Currently the -C option on the binutils tools does not demangle global
|> C++ initializers and destructors, because the demangler is confused by
|> the _GLOBAL__?_ prefix. The following patch changes this by skipping
|> this prefix when handing down to the demangler. This means for
|> example _GLOBAL__I__ZN10HashBasics13hashtablesizeEj is demangled to
|> _GLOBAL__I_HashBasics::hashtablesize(unsigned).
|>
|> What do you think about such a change?
I think this should rather be fixed in the demangler, so that it properly
detects ctor/dtor symbols.
Andreas.
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