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Re: Get rid of underscore.c
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <zack at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Get rid of underscore.c
On 12 Sep 2002, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > This has just broken binutils builds. Binutils currently builds its own
> > > copy of cxxfilt and now it has no main function.
> >
> > My recommendation is to drop cxxfilt from binutils. Patch appended.
>
> Err that seems a little bit draconian to me. Why shouldn't the
> binutils package provide a C++ demangler. (Answer: because G++ now
> does so).
Don't forget that the C++-demangler can also demangle other
mangling formats than that of g++ ("those", when considering
pre-V3 versions), so it makes sense to distribute it as a
program elsewhere than in GCC. Preferrably in binutils...
brgds, H-P