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Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, zack at codesourcery dot com, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dj at redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:18:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:08 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>
> > How about this? Move cxxfilt.c to libiberty, but never compile it in
> > libiberty. Buy default, binutils will compile cxxfilt in its binutils
> > directory.
>
> Why? Why build c++filt in binutils? Why?
>
> The demanger should be bundled with the mangler, i.e. the compiler.
Why should somebody using a.n.other compiler need to install gcc to get
the demangler?
I'm not sure there is a satisfactory answer to this question, short of a
separate package for just the demangler; and that really doesn't suit
anybody either.
R.