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Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- From: Kai Henningsen <kai at qualify dot domain dot khms dot westfalen dot de>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, 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: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Get rid of underscore.c
> I think of c++filt like addr2line and the other binutils as small
> utilities that give access to a mechanism that would otherwize only be
> available by running up GDB (outch). I don't think someone should be
> required to download/build GCC to get access to that utility.
That sounds as if *all* those utilities - not only c++filt - really
should be in a separate directory (maybe "debugutils"), accessible to all
the usual suspects (gcc, binutils, gdb). Together with any library parts.
And it sounds as if that directory should be handled similar to libiberty.