pending/1247: Re: cp-support.c:332: internal-error: cp_entire_prefix_len

[David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>]

>Number:         1247
>Category:       pending
>Synopsis:       Re: cp-support.c:332: internal-error: cp_entire_prefix_len
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>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 20 18:38:00 UTC 2003
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 On 18 Jun 2003 20:56:47 -0000, Stephane.Carrez@nerim.fr said:
 
 > the problem is due to the fact that the operator function
 > is '<' and not '<<'. The second '<' is the beginning of
 > a template instantiation.  This is wierd because you have
 > no way (to my knowledge) to distinguish between:
 
 > operator < <template instance>
 > operator << 
 
 > Since the second < is eat by the operator processing, we come up
 > with a wrong result. Ideally, the demangler should insert a space
 > after the operator <
 
 Yes, I agree.
 
 We should also consider turning this into a complaint (with a suitable
 fallback return value, presumably the length of the entire string)
 instead of an assertion: this is the second time we've been bitten by
 this assertion failure.  I'll work on this next week.
 
 David Carlton
 carlton@math.stanford.edu
 
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