Re: enable-build-with-cxx bootstrap compare broken by r149964

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>]

On 09/22/2009 07:04 AM, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:06 -0400, Jason Merrill wrote:
> > On 09/14/2009 11:54 AM, Jason Merrill wrote:
> > > I think the way to go with this is to revert the compiler bits of
> > > r149964, not mess with mangle.c at all, and insert the initial * if the
> > > typeinfo name won't have TREE_PUBLIC set, since that's precisely the
> > > property we want to mirror in comparison.
> >
> > Thoughts?  Another concern I have is that adding an initial * breaks
> > simple demangling of type_info::name(), so I'd like to find another way
> > of marking it for pointer comparison.
>
> What if we have type_info::name() be smart?  I.e.
>
> const char* name() { return name[0] == '*' ? name + 1 : name; }
>
> Then the * can still be a flag indicating compare by pointer.

I like it.

Jason