C++ automatic template instantiation?

[Dima Volodin]

Tudor Hulubei wrote:

> Internal STL symbols are tedious to resolve from the linker error
> messages, mostly because they end up being fully expanded (for
> instance string is replaced by something like
> basic_string<your_life_story_here>).  In many cases the symbol
> reported comes in the form of a C++ mangled string that I cannot
> demangle with c++filt, and I have to blindly guess it, which takes a
> lot of time, greping through the STL header files, etc.

You might want to update your binutils. We used to have problems like that
approx. three years ago. The cause of this problems was demnagling code's
limitations on the size of mangled names. With these limitations lifted, we
haven't experienced problems like this.


> Tudor

Dima