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Re: FYI: A new C++ demangler
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:36:09 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:28:30AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
>> Just to clarify: is the output of the new demangler exactly the same
>> as the output of the old demangler in all cases where the old
>> demangler is correct? Because if the new demangler does go into the
>> mainline libiberty, GDB will care about the details of its output.
> There is a demangler testsuite in libiberty and I added a few new
> tests which are failed with the old demangler. The new demangler
> passed all of them. I assume the outputs must be the same.
Fair enough; those tests look reasonable to me.
> BTW, I am not sure when/if the new demangler will show up in
> mainline libiberty.
Yeah, I've been following that thread. Sigh.
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com