Slow handling of C++ symbol names

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Wed Dec 3 20:35:00 GMT 2003


mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) writes:

> As far as DMGL_VERBOSE and other DMGL_* options go, I am actually just
> running two versions of c++filt with no special options and then
> comparing the results.  So I am not covering the layer of software where
> gdb uses different DMGL_* options.

Oh, OK.  c++filt always passes DMGL_VERBOSE.  That causes the old
demangler to print much longer names.  The new demangler ignores
DMGL_VERBOSE.  At least for now.

Ian



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