Re: XCOFF/PE hack removal

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:51:52AM -0600, Tom Rix wrote:
> You should add powerpc64-elf to the list of targets in the comment.

True.  Checking in this modified patch.

ld/ChangeLog
	* ldmisc.c (demangle): Put back dots when string not demangled.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

Index: ld/ldmisc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/ldmisc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -p -r1.8 ldmisc.c
--- ldmisc.c	2001/09/26 01:55:44	1.8
+++ ldmisc.c	2002/01/25 12:13:55
@@ -69,18 +69,20 @@ demangle (string)
      const char *string;
 {
   char *res;
+  char *p;
 
   if (output_bfd != NULL
       && bfd_get_symbol_leading_char (output_bfd) == string[0])
     ++string;
 
-  /* This is a hack for better error reporting on XCOFF, or the MS PE
-     format.  Xcoff has a single '.', while the NT PE for PPC has
-     '..'.  So we remove all of them.  */
-  while (string[0] == '.')
-    ++string;
+  /* This is a hack for better error reporting on XCOFF, PowerPC64-ELF
+     or the MS PE format.  These formats have a number of leading '.'s
+     on at least some symbols, so we remove all dots.  */
+  p = string;
+  while (*p == '.')
+    ++p;
 
-  res = cplus_demangle (string, DMGL_ANSI | DMGL_PARAMS);
+  res = cplus_demangle (p, DMGL_ANSI | DMGL_PARAMS);
   return res ? res : xstrdup (string);
 }