Proper test status if gdb test detects a g++ bug?

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Feb 5 10:40:00 GMT 2001


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On Feb  5, 2001, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Michael, I'd file a corresponding bug report in the GCC database. GCC
> > and not GDB maintains the demangler.
> 
> Are you sure?  The demangler is part of libiberty, not GCC in
> particular.  In fact, GCC itself has no need for the demangler :-) Of
> course, it'd better be kept in sync with whatever mangling GCC uses,
> but I don't think it's really maintained as part of GCC.  Not that a
> bug in the GCC bug database would be a bad idea, but you risk getting
> this kind of answer and having the bug report closed :-)

I'm not sure :-)

According to src/MAINTAINERS GCC look after libiberty.  If GCC disclaim
ownership for the demangler then I'd better clarify the comment in
src/MAINTAINERS.

	Andrew


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