Get rid of underscore.c
Jason Merrill
jason@redhat.com
Fri Sep 20 09:58:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:18:51 +0100, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:08 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>>
>> > How about this? Move cxxfilt.c to libiberty, but never compile it in
>> > libiberty. Buy default, binutils will compile cxxfilt in its binutils
>> > directory.
>>
>> Why? Why build c++filt in binutils? Why?
>>
>> The demanger should be bundled with the mangler, i.e. the compiler.
>
> Why should somebody using a.n.other compiler need to install gcc to get
> the demangler?
Other compilers should have their own c++filt. In my experience, they
usually do. The support for other demangling styles in cp-demangle is
mostly useful for use in gdb.
Jason
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