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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:36:00PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:28:55PM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > Does it ever make sense for any demangling anywhere -- i.e., for non-types --
> > > to only partially consume a mangled string?  (I wouldn't think so, but...)
> > 
> > I don't know either, but supposedly it can stop at characters
> > not in the mangled set.  I don't remember if it has to eat all
> > characters fed to it to be considered successful.
> 
> Hmm.  Okay, I won't go that route.
> 
> 
> > Either way seems a partial solution, solving the "data" ->
> > "double" error, but not to the "d" -> "double" error.
> 
> Ah, I see the problem more clearly now; thanks.  Yes, it looks like an option
> is needed.  I'll look into some kind of "no type demangling" flag somewhere.

Please go the other way.  This is an incompatible interface change -
and you've seen the violence you did to GDB and LD testsuites with this
patch by now, right?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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