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Re: GDB PATCH to disable specific G++ demangling
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: GDB PATCH to disable specific G++ demangling
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 Dec 2000 14:37:25 +0000
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012180337180.15723-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> Could you possibly say a few words about this change, and what exactly
>> is its effect, for those who don't know by heart what AUTO_DEMANGLING
>> does?
> AUTO_DEMANGLING detects the mangling style automatically, and demangles it
> based on that.
> This change defaults to doing this, now that we have two very different
> demangling styles about to common usage, and we previously defaulted to
> assuming we had one of these styles (the old abi mangling) if we
> determined it was a gcc compiled program, and we were using dwarf or
> stabs.
Yup.
> I would have fixed this before, but i mainly deal with dwarf2, which we
> default to AUTO_DEMANGLING.
Hmm, so do I, and I was still seeing mangled names before this patch. I
assumed that the dwarf2 code was using something out of stabsread, but
didn't bother tracking it down.
So, OK?
Jason