Re: gdb 8.x - g++ 7.x compatibility

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

On 2018-02-07 12:08, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> Why would they not have a mangled name?
>
> > Interesting.  What do they look like, and in what context do they 
> > appear?
>
> Anywhere you need a name for linkage purposes, such as in a function
> signature, or as a template argument of another type, or in the
> std::type_info::name() for the type etc. etc.
>
> $ g++ -o test.o -c -x c++ - <<< 'struct X {}; void f(X) {}
> template<typename T> struct Y { }; void g(Y<X>) {}' && nm
> --defined-only test.o
> 0000000000000000 T _Z1f1X
> 0000000000000007 T _Z1g1YI1XE
>
> The mangled name for X is "X" and the mangled name for Y<X> is "YI1XE"
> which includes the name "X".
>
> This isn't really on-topic for solving the GDB type lookup problem 
> though.

Ah ok, the class name appears mangled in other entities' mangled name.  
But from what I understand there's no mangled name for the class such 
that

  echo <class mangled name> | c++filt

outputs the class name (e.g. "Foo<10>").  That wouldn't make sense, 
since there's no symbol for the class itself.

Simon