Slow handling of C++ symbol names
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Wed Dec 3 20:16:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:56:45PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:
> ilt> Everything makes sense to me and I get the results I expect.
>
> That's good enough for me. I don't care much about the verbosity.
> My problem is: I've got 20,000 mangled names, and they demangle
> to 250 megabytes of text, and I want to find real bugs like the
> "operator< <" versus "operator <<" bug.
>
> It's a big needle-in-haystack problem. I'm messing around with
> a Perl script that helps sort out the haystack. After "monotone",
> I'd like to run it on mangled names from cygwin and mozilla and
> open-office too.
If what you're trying to do is canonicalize the names, consider the 20K
or so parser I posted to the "C++ / Java regressions" thread on Monday.
It has a couple of bugs left but it's pretty solid.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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