From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: maynardj@us.ibm.com
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: C++ demangling of 64-bit symbols on ppc64
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3abxn3a3r.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4612D2FA.4050407@us.ibm.com>
Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> writes:
> As the de facto maintainer of the ppc64 bits of oprofile, I was
> recently asked to look into an oprofile bug where it was incorrectly
> demangling 64-bit symbols. The oprofile code uses the libiberty
> function, cplus_demangle(), but is not getting back the right answer
> for ppc64 64-bit symbols. This appears to be more fallout from the
> change (made a couple years ago or so) to the opd for ppc64, where the
> leading "." was removed from 64-bit symbols.
>
> I hacked around the problem in my private oprofile src tree, but I'm
> thinking this issue should be solved at its source. I'm seeing this
> problem on a SLES 10 system with binutils version 2.16.91. Has this
> possibly been resolved in a more recent binutils version or in CVS?
Can you give an example of a symbol which the demangler is not
handling correctly?
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-05 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 22:19 Maynard Johnson
2007-04-05 1:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2007-04-05 13:10 ` Maynard Johnson
2007-04-05 16:00 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-04-05 19:16 ` Maynard Johnson
2007-04-06 0:55 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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