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Re: Get rid of underscore.c

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:22:38PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Code like this needs to be pushed into libiberty where GDB can also use 
> > it.  At present GDB has its own equivalent of these operations :-(
> 
> I don't agree that libiberty is the right place for keeping the
> details of assembler syntax of various platforms.  That sounds more
> like a bfd thing.
> 
> If it were part of the demangler, though, I think that would be OK.
> More likely, the app should *tell* the demangler which characters are
> valid.  GCC, for example, has command line options that change the set
> of valid characters.

Right now, the app is doing precisely that.  This code should be read
as part of an app that uses the demangler, not part of the demangler
itself - that code is in libiberty/cp-demangle.c and cplus-dem.c.

zw
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