RFA: Please review the new C++ demangler patch

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:37:27PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I can send a patch to build libiberty after libstdc++. Will it be
> > accepted?
> 
> Have you *tried* such a patch?  We've had problems with dependencies
> before (unrelated).  I have no technical problems with rearranging the
> target build order.  I still have reservations about creating such a
> dependency for libiberty in the first place - we've never needed a C++
> compiler for such things as libiberty, gdb, and binutils before.
> Given that libiberty was originally intended to be a simple
> portability layer, this kind of complexity tells me that we're doing
> something fundamentally wrong here.

That is demangler in libiberty is broken and noone will fix it.
Also there is a working one in C++.


H.J.