Solaris 2.5.1, gcc version 2.96 20000807; RTTI problem

[Jim McKelvey <mckelvey at bean dot jpl dot nasa dot gov>]

typeinfo.name() prepends a count to the type name.

Instead of Cxyzxyzxyz it returns 10Cxyzxyzxyz


mushroom...C++>g++ -fsquangle -o x -W -Wall -v x.cc
Reading specs from 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000807 (experimental)
 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/cpp0 -lang-c++ -D__GNUG__=2 -v -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=96 
-D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc__ 
-D__sun__ -D__unix__ -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc -D__sun -D__unix 
-Asystem(unix) -Asystem(svr4) -W -Wall -D__GCC_NEW_VARARGS__ -Acpu(sparc) 
-Amachine(sparc) x.cc /var/tmp/ccDYZhnb.ii
GNU CPP version 2.96 20000807 (experimental) (cpplib)
 (sparc)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/include/g++-3
 /usr/local/include
 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/include
 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/include
 /usr/include
End of search list.
 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/cc1plus /var/tmp/ccDYZhnb.ii -quiet -dumpbase x.cc -W -Wall -version 
-fsquangle -o /var/tmp/cc2Y2efd.s
GNU C++ version 2.96 20000807 (experimental) (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1) compiled 
by GNU C version 2.96 20000807 (experimental).
 /usr/ccs/bin/as -V -Qy -s -o /var/tmp/cc1DhIvb.o /var/tmp/cc2Y2efd.s
/usr/ccs/bin/as: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 dev 13 May 1996
 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/collect2 -V -Y P,/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/lib -Qy -o x 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/crt1.o 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/crti.o /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/crtbegin.o 
-L/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solari
s2.5.1/2.96 -L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib 
-L/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solari
s2.5.1/2.96/../../.. /var/tmp/cc1DhIvb.o -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/crtend.o 
/afs/jpl.nasa.gov/home/m/mckelvey/public/Software/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2
.5.1/2.96/crtn.o
ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris/ELF (3.0)
mushroom...C++>
mushroom...C++>
mushroom...C++>./x
10Cxyzxyzxyz
mushroom...C++>


#include <typeinfo>
#include <iostream.h>


class Cxyzxyzxyz
{
};

int main(void)
{
    Cxyzxyzxyz q;

    cout << typeid(q).name() << endl;

    return 0;
}