Demangling in backtraces

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Sun Mar 14 07:43:33 GMT 2021


> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>,  Hannes Domani
>  <ssbssa@yahoo.de>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:29:59 +0100
> 
> On Mär 14 2021, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.  So does this mean we don't have any kind of "manual
> > demangler" in GDB that could be turned on in cases like this, when
> > "just works" doesn't?  Hannes, any ideas?
> 
> (gdb) help demangle 
> Demangle a mangled name.
> Usage: demangle [-l LANGUAGE] [--] NAME
> If LANGUAGE is not specified, NAME is demangled in the current language.

Sure, I know.  I thought there could be some "set FOO" knob that would
demangle automatically in the backtraces.

The above works, of course (one must use "-l c++", btw), but not if I
submit the "decorated" name, such as
"libgccjit-0!_Z17gimple_build_callP9tree_nodejz".

Thanks.


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