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Re: RFC: libiberty PATCH to disable demangling of ancient mangling schemes
- From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, matz at gcc dot gnu dot org, Scott Gayou <sgayou at redhat dot com>, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, gcc-patches List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:48:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: libiberty PATCH to disable demangling of ancient mangling schemes
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> I would say that it's very, very unlikely, and not worth it of the
Pedro> maintenance burden.
Agreed, and especially true for the more unusual demanglings like Lucid
or EDG.
On the gdb side perhaps we can get rid of "demangle-style" now. It
probably hasn't worked properly in years, and after this it would be
guaranteed not to.
Tom