PATCH: Support the new demangler written in C++
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Tue Jul 8 08:00:00 GMT 2003
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:
| It's not acceptable for GDB to magically build
| with the "good" demangler if there's a C++ compiler around and with
| the "bad" demangler if there isn't; can you imagine the confusing bug
| reports? "It works for me with the same snapshot." "Did you have a C++
| compiler in your environment?" Ick, ick, ick, ick, ick, ick, ick.
Arguments along the same lines can be made if the demangler were
written in C.
Which just demontrates a bad fate behind this whole bootstrapping
argument.
Sigh.
-- Gaby
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