Re: demengler in libstdc++ is changed

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:28:33AM +0100, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:36:56PM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW, is anyone working on fixing the demangler in libiberty? There
> > > is a replacement in C++.
> > 
> > If it's a problem that it is written in C++, you could always just compile
> > it with the LLVM G++ compiler to C.  Include _that_ in libiberty...
> > problem solved! :) :)
> 
> We already provided a library with C linkage (that does not need
> libstdc++).  But the libiberty people don't want to need a C++
> compiler to compile libiberty.
> 

My main question is, should 2 demanglers have the same correct output
on the same input? If the answer is YES, I think the testsuites should
be modified to enforce that. If the answer is NO, that is a regression
from gcc 3.2/3.3.


H.J.