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Re: Proper test status if gdb test detects a g++ bug?


On Feb  4, 2001, Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com> wrote:

> (1) cvs gcc emits correct stabs for the hairyfunc's.
>     cvs gdb demangles the names improperly.

GDB is probably using the demangler from libiberty, that is the same
demangler used by c++filt.  By fixing libiberty, we'd be fixing GDB,
c++filt and a few other tools in binutils that do their own
demangling.

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