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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: So what is wrong with v3 C++
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nppubjqpys.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lmm9n4t6.fsf@cgsoftware.com>

Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com> writes:
> Yes. The real problem we are running into, of course, is that types
> themselves have no mangled names.

Right, because they're not objects in memory.  They have no linker
symbol to name them, so we don't have anything to demangle and guess
the prefixes from.

> And if you fully qualified the name in the DW_AT_name attribute, you'd
> run into all sorts of problems because DWARF2 really *can* support the
> info we need, it just didn't output it. 

Doesn't Dwarf2 specify that it should be unqualified?  If it doesn't,
it should, it seems to me.


> So it's an obviously broken thing, because we have 0 chance of getting
> the info we need. it's simply not there.

Yep.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-02  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-28 16:28 Andrew Cagney
2001-06-28 18:59 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-29 13:40 ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-29 23:15   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-30 10:06     ` Jim Blandy
2001-06-30 12:30       ` Daniel Berlin
2001-07-02  9:01         ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2001-07-04  9:22   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-06-28 18:12 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-28 19:06 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-28 20:42 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-28 20:44 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-06-28 23:10   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-28 23:08 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-29  0:29 ` Tom Tromey
2001-06-28 23:31 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-29  8:59 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-28 23:50 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-29  8:59 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-29  0:56 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-29 10:28 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-06-29 11:40 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-29 11:57 Benjamin Kosnik
2001-07-02 20:28 ` Per Bothner
2001-07-02 14:54 Benjamin Kosnik

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