Slow handling of C++ symbol names

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Wed Dec 3 17:34:00 GMT 2003


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> GDB never does set DMGL_VERBOSE.  Are you sure the old demangler
> wouldn't produce that without DMGL_VERBOSE?
> 
> Maybe the old demangler had a test reversed.  ISTR that c++filt passes
> DMGL_VERBOSE, and that generates std::string rather than
> std::basic_string for the above.

Well, hmmm.  The code looks right to me.  When I run my copy of
c++filt built with the old demangler, I get the long string, as
expected.

I note that DMGL_VERBOSE was only added on 2002-02-05, so if you're
using a c++filt from sources before that you will get the smaller
demangling.

Ian



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