Re: [rfa] always use demangled name to set scope

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:01:28PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:17:27 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:26:34PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> 
> >> OK to commit?
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> Thanks, committed.
> 
> > By 6.1 I want to rip out all uses of the demangled name along the
> > DWARF-2 code path though.  If I can find the time...
> 
> We'll see.  I do think that the nested type deduction machinery is
> both useful and impossible to do without demangled names.  And there

I completely disagree.  We have all the machinery in DWARF-2 to do it
without demangled names by using the available hierarchy; it was
designed to suffice for this.

Stabs we'll just have to fake it.

> are fun bits like how gnuv3_rtti_type looks at the demangled name of
> the vtable.  If it were possible to get rid of that, I would be a
> happy person indeed, since its existence is probably going to force me
> to change the demangler's output somewhat.  (On the other hand, that
> call is also a useful canary in the coal mine, too, because of the
> RTTI warning that comes out of it.)

I am fairly sure we can kill that for DWARF-2 at least.  I'd rather
kill it than change the demangler.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer