RFA: Please review the new C++ demangler patch

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Jun 26 08:42:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:44:02AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2003, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't want to force the change of the build order between libiberty
> > and libstdc++ in this patch. It may cause other problems.
> 
> I think it will cause problems for Cygwin.

That is what I am afraid of.

> 
> I strongly dislike the idea of replacing object files in a library
> created in a different directory.  It will make parallel builds even
> messier than they are.  Let's please try to find another way to do it.
> 

Do you have any suggestions? The main problem is demangler, which
is the part of libibert, depends on libstdc++ and libstdc++ depends
on libiberty. But demangler only needs the header files from libstdc++.
Is there a way out?


H.J.



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