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Re: Patch question for binutils files include/demangle.h and libiberty/cplus-dem.c
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- To: eraxxon at alumni dot rice dot edu
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:03:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: Patch question for binutils files include/demangle.h and libiberty/cplus-dem.c
- References: <004301c26ee2$dd7dab20$9bc4c943@nesini>
Adding to the ABI is permissible as long as you don't make any
backward-incompatible changes to either the API or ABI.
However, why doesn't the gnu demangler support sun's mangled names?
It would be a better contribution to add such support, then you'd only
need one demangler.
Of course, if you're willing to use objcopy anyway, perhaps you could
use it to modify the ABI for sun's demangler.
(Patches to libiberty should go to gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org as well, too.)