Problems with __cxa_demangle and the verbose terminate handler

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

| Three solutions to this problem are: 
| 
| 1) keep the default terminate handler __verbose_terminate_handler, and
| make people using libsupc++ set the new handler to std::abort 
| 
| 2) keep the default terminate handler __verbose_terminate_handler, and
| make __cxa_demangle self-contained.
| 
| 3) switch the default terminate handler to std::abort
| 
| Perhaps there are other options, but #2 seems to be the only workable
| solution for all the issues.
| 
| I don't know how to do #2 with the current demangler sources in
| libstdc++. 

If the verbose terminator is going to be the riding horse for people
to demand the removal of the C++-based demangler, I'll vote #3 -- even
though I find the verbose terminator  useful.

-- Gaby