FYI: A new C++ demangler

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Thu Jul 10 16:38:00 GMT 2003


Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:

> I have kind of a silly question.  Do I need to rebuild binutils and/or gcc
> with the new demangler, or can I just rebuild gdb?  That is, do gcc or
> binutils ever need to run the demangler while compiling?

Some of the binutils are linked against the demangler.  This doesn't
matter for compilation, only for error reporting and for the output of
objdump and nm.  I don't know whether this matters for your test bed.

Ian



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