Re: Slow handling of C++ symbol names

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:34:31PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > GDB never does set DMGL_VERBOSE.  Are you sure the old demangler
> > wouldn't produce that without DMGL_VERBOSE?
> > 
> > Maybe the old demangler had a test reversed.  ISTR that c++filt passes
> > DMGL_VERBOSE, and that generates std::string rather than
> > std::basic_string for the above.
> 
> Well, hmmm.  The code looks right to me.  When I run my copy of
> c++filt built with the old demangler, I get the long string, as
> expected.
> 
> I note that DMGL_VERBOSE was only added on 2002-02-05, so if you're
> using a c++filt from sources before that you will get the smaller
> demangling.

I'm using one from binutils as of a month or so ago, and I get the
short string.  Hmm.  I don't know quite what's going on.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer