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Re: [PATCH] PR libstdc++/13045 / C++ demangler, floating values and function pointer type return type postfix fix.
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
| Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
|
| > I don't understand this -- code is built for a particular target.
| > Why can't the demangler interpret floating point stuff according to
| > what --target is set to?
|
| The demangler has not historically been a target-dependent tool. Such
| a change would lead to things like renaming c++filt to TARGET-c++filt.
When I build and install --target=foo, I get foo-c++filt today. So
that's not a change. Now perhaps the current situation is that
foo-c++filt is no different from bar-c++filt. But it seems rather
ugly to pretend that non-IEEE targets don't exist. Especially in view
of the fact that GCC has had a pile of work done to it to improve its
float handling -- which among other things causes it to handle
non-IEEE targets right (or at least, much closer to right).
paul