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Re: RFC: Make a standalone GNU V3 C++ demangler
- From: "B. Kosnik" <bkoz at nabi dot net>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: hjl at lucon dot org, bkoz at redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, carlo at alinoe dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:18:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFC: Make a standalone GNU V3 C++ demangler
- References: <20030423164920.A26737@lucon.org><20030424034120.GA7126@nevyn.them.org>
>Does this patch actually make it available to libiberty? And is the
>intent to obsolete and remove the v3 demangler currently in libiberty?
>
>I just want to make it clear that (if so) you're introducing the
>requirement for a host C++ compiler in order to build either GDB or
>c++filt. That's reasonable, but I don't want it to happen unnoticed,
>and I don't think it should happen without informing the affected
>projects.
This patch provides a more accurate C++ demangler for libiberty to use,
if certain requirements can be met (g++, <vector>). If it can't, the old
one is used instead. Therefore, there will be no added dependency for gdb
or binutils.
-benjamin