[Bug c++/11685] typeinfo is not demangled in error messages

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------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2003-08-29 19:36 -------
Subject: Re:  typeinfo is not demangled in error messages

"bangerth at dealii dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| Gaby, there might be a simpler way: the message reads 
|   `get_uuidof(const std::type_info&)((&_ZTIi))' 
| i.e. function_name(type of argument)((value of argument)). If we
| just omit the value of the argument, then this would already be
| enough. I find the format quite confusing anyway. 

I agree on the confusing looking of the message.
However, we cannot omit the argument because it is the value of the
function that is being used.  What we can avoid, however, is getting
the mangled name.  I believe this is just another case of the
front-end being too eager.

-- Gaby