Helping out GDB

[Richard Earnshaw]

martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de said:
> Why is that? If the symbols start with __vt_, it's vtable thunks; if
> they start with __vt., it's old-style vtables. Is that difficult to
> tell apart? 

Last time I looked, whether "." was a valid character for an object format 
was a back-end choice (the assembler may not grok it).  In such cases, 
either "$" or, in the worst case, "_" is substituted instead.  So in 
general: No, it isn't enough.

R.