Demangling C++ global initializers and destructors

[Andreas Schwab]

Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de> writes:

|> Hello.
|> 
|> Currently the -C option on the binutils tools does not demangle global
|> C++ initializers and destructors, because the demangler is confused by
|> the _GLOBAL__?_ prefix.  The following patch changes this by skipping
|> this prefix when handing down to the demangler.  This means for
|> example _GLOBAL__I__ZN10HashBasics13hashtablesizeEj is demangled to
|> _GLOBAL__I_HashBasics::hashtablesize(unsigned).
|> 
|> What do you think about such a change?

I think this should rather be fixed in the demangler, so that it properly
detects ctor/dtor symbols.

Andreas.

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