Re: [rfa] always use demangled name to set scope

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:17:27 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:26:34PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:

>> OK to commit?

> Yes.

Thanks, committed.

> By 6.1 I want to rip out all uses of the demangled name along the
> DWARF-2 code path though.  If I can find the time...

We'll see.  I do think that the nested type deduction machinery is
both useful and impossible to do without demangled names.  And there
are fun bits like how gnuv3_rtti_type looks at the demangled name of
the vtable.  If it were possible to get rid of that, I would be a
happy person indeed, since its existence is probably going to force me
to change the demangler's output somewhat.  (On the other hand, that
call is also a useful canary in the coal mine, too, because of the
RTTI warning that comes out of it.)

But I really am getting a pretty good feel for how to use the
hierarchical info in DWARF to help us here.  And people at Kealia have
given me some very useful bug reports along those lines: this would be
impossible to get at all right without a large C++ code base to
trigger all sorts of random GCC idiosyncracies.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu