Demangling broken (was: Re: [PATCH] Demangler woes with current CVS and type names)

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:28:55PM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > Does it ever make sense for any demangling anywhere -- i.e., for non-types --
> > to only partially consume a mangled string?  (I wouldn't think so, but...)
> 
> I don't know either, but supposedly it can stop at characters
> not in the mangled set.  I don't remember if it has to eat all
> characters fed to it to be considered successful.

Hmm.  Okay, I won't go that route.


> Either way seems a partial solution, solving the "data" ->
> "double" error, but not to the "d" -> "double" error.

Ah, I see the problem more clearly now; thanks.  Yes, it looks like an option
is needed.  I'll look into some kind of "no type demangling" flag somewhere.

Phil

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