From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1649 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2003 23:10:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1610 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2003 23:10:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2003 23:10:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 22493 invoked by uid 10); 15 Dec 2003 23:10:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 24811 invoked by uid 500); 15 Dec 2003 23:10:37 -0000 From: Ian Lance Taylor To: David Carlton Cc: gdb Subject: Re: new demangler References: <20031215225452.GA23169@nevyn.them.org> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00220.txt.bz2 David Carlton writes: > Hmm. I don't have a CVS binutils tree around, but I get, with GDB > from current CVS: > > (gdb) maint demangle _ZN1C6CClassaSERKS0_ > Can't demangle "_ZN1C6CClassaSERKS0_" > > So either we're using different demanglers or else there's something > strange about maint demangle/class_name_from_physname. Either of > which is possible - nobody other than me uses class_name_from_physname > regularly, after all, and maint demangle is only a maint command. `maint demangle' only works for me when I explicitly run gdb on a C++ program. When I do specify a C++ program, it appears to work correctly. Otherwise, I see that maintenance_demangle() calls language_demangle(). When I try running gdb without an explicit C++ program, either current_language is NULL or current_language->la_demangle is NULL, so language_demangle returns NULL. Ian