RFA: Search for symbol names the same way they're hashed.
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Mon Oct 7 16:38:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:19:10PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:05:15 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
>
> > Right now, there are multiple functions with the same symbol
> > demangled name, but different mangled names.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what are the current situations that you know
> of where that can happen? I just noticed today that unnamed
Well, that comment was about constructors:
_ZN1AC1Eb
A::A[in-charge](bool)
_ZN1AC2Eb
A::A[not-in-charge](bool)
We strip off the [in-charge] bit because we don't have any use for it.
> namespaces in different files can demangle to the same name, which
> sure doesn't thrill me; I'm curious about where else demangling is
> losing important info.
We can't even use the demangled names of such things, anyway. We'll
need to figure out what to do with them eventually...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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