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Re: FYI: A new C++ demangler
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, fche at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, hjl at lucon dot org
- Date: 15 Jul 2003 19:58:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: FYI: A new C++ demangler
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <20030712180228.GA912@doctormoo> <3F142933.1060902@redhat.com>
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote
| > We *don't* want to add such a build requirement for GCC or binutils,
| > for very good reasons (a lot of systems don't ship with a C++
| > compiler). HJ keeps proposing a *completely* demented idea, which
| > is that the new demangler will be used if a C++ compiler happens to
| > be lying around during build, and otherwise the broken demangler
| > will be used. I wish he'd see what's wrong with that picture.
I think the completely demented idea is insisting that "lot of
systems don't ship with a C++ compiler" and continuing to demande to
continue a broken implementation.
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> wrote:
| However, there is the SIM directory .....
Yes. Apparently Nathanael doesn't seem to understand that C++
can be used productively for system programming.
-- Gaby