Re: [RFA]: Fix partial symbol lookups

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:19:41AM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >>>>I also corrected lookup_partial_symbol to binary search the global
> >>>>table, regardless of language, since this is the part that had led me
> >>>>to believe it had demangled names in it in the first place.
> >>>
> >>>Are you SURE that NO language puts mangled names in?
> >>You mean demangled, and yes, i'm positive.
> >
> >Ah, but now Peter points out that this might not be true for HP.
> 
> How hard would it be to change the HP way of doing things?  It doesn't
> seem right to have one host doing things differently from all of the
> others.

It isn't right.  It's very wrong.

But we must still not break it.  Let's fix it if we can.