Re: objdump : inaccurate demangling for foo(char* const)

[Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis at mailc dot net>]

foo(char* const) is no different from foo(char*), from the perspective 
of linking/overloading.

Did you mean foo(char const *)?

Alex Vinokur wrote:
> ==========================================
> Windows 2000 Professional
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.4(0.94/3/2)
> GNU gcc version 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)
> GNU objdump 2.14.90 20030901
> ==========================================
>
>
> It seems that objdump inaccurately demangles foo(char* const).
>   Low-level symbol name of foo(char* const) is valid : __Z3fooPc
>   But user-level symbol name obtained after demangling is inaccurate : foo(char*).
>
>
>
> ====== C++ code : BEGIN ======
> // File t.cpp
>
> void foo3 (char*) {}
>
> ====== C++ code : END ========
>
>
>
> ====== Compilation : BEGIN ======
>
> $ g++ -c t.cpp
>
> ====== Compilation : END ========
>
>
>
> ====== objdump : BEGIN ======
>
> $ objdump -d t.o
>
> t.o:     file format pe-i386
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <__Z3fooPc>:    // OK
>    0: 55                    push   %ebp
>    1: 89 e5                 mov    %esp,%ebp
>    3: 5d                    pop    %ebp
>    4: c3                    ret
>    5: 90                    nop
>    6: 90                    nop
>    7: 90                    nop
>    8: 90                    nop
>    9: 90                    nop
>    a: 90                    nop
>    b: 90                    nop
>    c: 90                    nop
>    d: 90                    nop
>    e: 90                    nop
>    f: 90                    nop
>
>
>
>
>
> $ objdump -Cd t.o
>
>
> t.o:     file format pe-i386
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <foo(char*)>:    // Must be foo(char* const)
>    0: 55                    push   %ebp
>    1: 89 e5                 mov    %esp,%ebp
>    3: 5d                    pop    %ebp
>    4: c3                    ret
>    5: 90                    nop
>    6: 90                    nop
>    7: 90                    nop
>    8: 90                    nop
>    9: 90                    nop
>    a: 90                    nop
>    b: 90                    nop
>    c: 90                    nop
>    d: 90                    nop
>    e: 90                    nop
>    f: 90                    nop
>
> ====== objdump : END ========
>
> --
>    =====================================
>    Alex Vinokur
>      mailto:alexvn@connect.to
>      http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html
>    =====================================



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