Re: GDB PATCH to disable specific G++ demangling

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot 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