Re: New ABI demangler support in binutils

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

   Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:15:55 -0700
   From: Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>

   : Should I sync the whole libiberty or just the demangler? I prefer
   : the whole libiberty since there are quite a few files for demangler
   : in libiberty and I don't know if they will work right without other
   : changes.

   How much work is involved and how likely is it that this will break
   things ?

   Ideally I would like to see the two versions of the library's sources
   being identical, but I am worried that this mightbreak too many
   things.  Also I am not sure if the gcc libiberty should be considered
   the master copy and the binutils one just a shadow of it. or if there
   are important features in both which need to be merged together.

   If you have the time and the desire then I would suggest that you do
   try to merge the whole of the two libiberties.  But please be careful!

The libraries should be identical.  I used to periodically simply
import the gcc libiberty into the binutils libiberty.  No changes
should be checked into the binutils libiberty without being first
checked into the gcc libiberty.

Ian