Re: [RFA] Compile objc-lang.c, objc-exp.tab.c [1/5]

[Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>]

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 03:53 PM, David Carlton wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:23:08 -0700, Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> said:
>
>> Here's my crack at doing [language-specific demangling].
>
> This patch bothers me: it doesn't handle Java cleanly, and I'm not
> sure about the 'options' argument to language_demangle.  It seems to
> me that, at the very least, there should be a java_demangle function
> defined that takes the options passed in, applies '| DMGL_JAVA' to it,
> and calls cplus_demangle.
>
Sure. That makes sense.

> But I also wanted to double-check: does 'options' really make sense
> for all language types?  If I'm reading the patch correctly, it looks
> like Objective C just throws it away.  If that's the case, then I
> don't think that 'options' should be part of the language vector: if
> C++ needs it for internal purposes, then C++ could have its own more
> flexible demangler with that option (which Java could also use), but
> the version in the language vector should be more restricted.
>
>
Then I should go back to the case where if we know the language is 
cplus or java, then call cplus_demangle(/java_demangle), otherwise use 
language_demangle?