ABI demangling problems

[Asfand Yar Qazi]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Asfand Yar Qazi <email@asfandyar.cjb.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm using the abi::__cxa_demangle() function, and it doesn't recognise
>>the names 'l' (for long) and other similar names.  This seems to be
>>new behaviour since the change to G++ 3.4.0 from 3.3.3. (where the
>>names for long, char etc. were demangled fine.) How can I demangle the
>>names for long (l), char(c), unsigned char(h), etc.?
> 
> 
> Can you give an example of what you mean?
> 
> I don't know if this is what you are referring to, but note that the
> demangler does not demangle single character typenames.  I think that
> is a dumb rule, but it follows the API described here:
>     http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html#demangler
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

Well it USED to in 3.3.3.  That is a silly rule.  Sigh... I'll 
just have to put in the single character stuff manually.  I wish 
there was a standard C++ way of doing demangling in the official 
standard (C++0x perhaps?).

Thanks


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