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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Demangler crash handler


Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 05/13/14 19:22, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > I suppose I could run the demangler on all symbols in Fedora and
> > downstream and see what breaks.  Would that help?
> 
> That'd be interesting.

Yes, very much so.

> Or you could just pass that list through c++filt, the binutils
> program, which also uses the same demangler.  That might be
> faster, though obviously won't catch gdb-specific bugs.

c++filt would be enough to catch the crashes we've seen recently.
It would be best to have c++filt built with the latest libiberty
from GCC upstream, as two fixes have gone in recently.

> Perhaps we could also have the list of symbols accessible somewhere,
> so that anyone could try it without having to build/install the
> world?

Ah, yes, it'd be great to have an install-the-world symbols list
somewhere to try things with.

Cheers,
Gary

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