Re: [libstdc++] Make use of runtime demangler

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:21:27PM +0100, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:29:24PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > This builds the new __cxa_demangle'r into the C++ support library.
> 
> Just asking because last thing I knew was that the problem
> of adding my demangler to libiberty and the C++ support library
> was a license problem (the FSF would refuse to allow another
> license than the GPL); but my demangler would be better.
> So, when now another demangler is added - then apparently the
> license problem is solved and I wonder why not my demangler is
> added instead.

The cxa_demangler isn't really being added -- it's always been there.
We just haven't been able to link to it from the library directly.

I second Bejamin's questions -- please describe why exactly your demangler is
better, and post a patch to allow a call to __cxa_demangle() to resolve to
your demangler instead.  I don't particularly care offhand which demangler
is doing the underlying work.  Maybe we can offer configure options to
use arbitrary external demanglers, like we're doing now with "libunwind".


Phil

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