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Re: Demangler update?


On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:31:18AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>    Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:20:46 -0700
>    From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
>    > In any case, we only need to fully solve the 90% case, in which there
>    > is only one compiler around, while retaining enough flexibility to
>    > handle unusual cases such as the one you describe.
> 
>    I don't think my case is that unusual. As of today, on my Linux
>    box, there are C++ binaries linked with 4 different versions
>    of libstdc++, compiled with 4 different versions of g++.
> 
> I hope you aren't trying to argue that you are a typical user.  I
> believe that most developers use one compiler which they rarely
> change.

Debian Potato will ship with three versions of libstdc++ (libstdc++2.8,
libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, libstdc++2.10) and four versions of libg++ 
(libg++2.8, libg++27, libg++2.8.1.3, libg++2.8.2-glibc2.1). I have
all three versions of libstdc++ around.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

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