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Re: C++/Java regressions
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:56:28PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > If it helps, that's more or less what my libiberty C++ demangler does.
> > > It first translate the name into a simple tree structure, and then
> > > walks the tree translating it into a string. I could expose the tree,
> > > although it would have to be documented a bit better.
> >
> > Oh, so it's already two-pass? If we could work out an API for the
> > tree, then GDB could build and supply trees to get a canonical form
> > back from the demangler. That has the added bonus of not needing to
> > post-process the demangler output (if we know that we've got a GNU v3
> > name and thus this demangler was used, of course - v2 would still need
> > to be parsed). That sounds like an ideal solution.
>
> I've been wanting something like this for a long time, too.
FYI, I'm in the middle (this evening) of writing the appropriate
parser.
It's reminding me how much I hate the grammar of C++, too.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer