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Re: PATCH: Fix demangler in symbol versioning

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> > It could conceivably lead to incorrect output.  I don't know.  For
> > example, if you call cplus_demangle ("i", DMGL_TYPES), you will get
> > "int".  So if there is an external variable named `i', it seems
> > conceivable that the wrong thing would happen.  I haven't thought
> > about whether this could really happen, though.
> 
> In that case, we have a regression with cxxfilt. The old one:
> 
> # cxxfilt i
> i
> 
> The new one:
> 
> # ./cxxfilt i
> int

What is ``the old one'' in this case?

I think a c++filt built from any sources in 2003 will print `int' when
passed `i'.  Certainly I have one which does that.

Ian
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