Problems with __cxa_demangle and the verbose terminate handler

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Feb 23 06:39:00 GMT 2004


Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> | That argues, again, for using the C demangler.
>
> No.  It argues only for not using the throw-form.
>
> In French, there is a saying: "si on veut noyer un chien, on prétend
> qu'il a la gâle".

I don't know what the French means, but I think the burden should be
on the C++ demangler proponents to explain why it should be kept.  The
C demangler used to be buggy, but now it has been fixed, so it is
strictly more useful now; why do we need two implementations?

zw



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