Re: C++ automatic template instantiation? References: <200004192022.NAA16570@kankakee.wrs.com>

[Tudor Hulubei <tudor dot hulubei at ecora dot com>]

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Reply-To: Tudor Hulubei <tudor.hulubei@ecora.com>
Organization: ecora.com


  On Wednesday, 19 April 2000, Dima Volodin wrote:
> Tudor Hulubei wrote:
>
> > Internal STL symbols are tedious to resolve from the linker error
> > messages, mostly because they end up being fully expanded (for
> > instance string is replaced by something like
> > basic_string<your_life_story_here>).  In many cases the symbol
> > reported comes in the form of a C++ mangled string that I cannot
> > demangle with c++filt, and I have to blindly guess it, which takes a
> > lot of time, greping through the STL header files, etc.
>
> You might want to update your binutils. We used to have problems like that
> approx. three years ago. The cause of this problems was demnagling code's
> limitations on the size of mangled names. With these limitations lifted, we
> haven't experienced problems like this.

I'm using RedHat 6.2, released a few weeks ago.  This is the version
reported by `rpm-qa | grep binutils':

binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6

ld -v:

GNU ld 2.9.5
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux


Tudor