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Re: Patch to fix PR9861
TJ Laurenzo writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I wonder what this does to debugging. I'm going to try it now.
>
> If you build gdb with the patched cp-demangle.c the only difference
> *should* be that demangled names will include the return type (without
> cp-demangle.c patched, you will only see mangled names). I have not
> tested this against gdb so I am interested to know how it goes.
>
> I have tested this against binutils by applying the cp-demangle.c
> patch and verifying that demangling names in object files works
> properly (ie. nm -C). I have also added a couple of test cases to
> libiberty that exercise this change.
We're going to need to be able to run with an unpatched gdb and an
unpatched binutils for a little while. I understand that there may be
some odd behaviour, but basic debugging must still be possible.
Andrew.