Re: [RFA/stabs reader] Fix v3 duplicate constructors problem

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-04T16:58:50Z

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:26:47PM +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:
>
> > I would like gdb to demangle different names differently.
>
> Which brings me to a question: Why don't we demangle them differently?
> Currently, flag_verbose in cp-demangle.c defaults to 0, so the two
> functions are demangled identically. I think this is wrong, and have
> changed flag_verbose to 1 for my own use. What do other people think?

Strongly agree. I was boggled to find two names for obviously
different constructors that were demangled to the same thing; after
figuring out what all the different variants were, of course, it made
sense - but it violates least surprise quite badly.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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