gdb 8.x - g++ 7.x compatibility

[Nathan Sidwell]

On 02/07/2018 12:11 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> 
> Note that the ABI is explicitly designed so that type identity can be done
> by address comparison.

correct, but be aware that lots of dynamic objects seem to step outside 
the ABI by building shared objects with -Bsymbolic[1], or the equivalent 
visibility=hidden, or similar.  So now the typeinfo comparison operator 
is something like
   return this->name == other->name
   || (this->name[0] != '*' && other->name[0] != '*'
       && !strcmp (this->name, other->name))

nathan
[1] I see -Bsymbolic-functions is now a thing, which would be better

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Nathan Sidwell