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Re: Demangling broken (was: Re: [PATCH] Demangler woes with current CVS and type names)


On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:50:10PM +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > 	(main): Set cplus_demangle_v3_p to cplus_demangle_v3_type for
> > 	gnu_v3_demangling:
> 
> Not OK.  This will wreak the same havoc that Phil's original change did,
> just only with -s gnu-v3.  The type-handling behavior should be limited to
> command line arguments, it should never be active in filter mode.

What if HJ's patch were to turn on type demangling by default only when
the standalone c++filt were being built, and leave the current semantics
stand for the library?  (Is that what you're saying?)

My feeling is that users won't know to call c++filt with extra flags.


Phil

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