Re: c++/5390: Libiberty fails to demangle multi-digit template parameters.

[Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/5390; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
To: Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c++/5390: Libiberty fails to demangle multi-digit template
 parameters.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:03:32 -0600 (CST)

 Carlo,
 first this: When I complained that this PR has been sitting idle despite 
 the fact that it has a patch, I complained to the ones who are in power of 
 reviewing and applying patches. That it has not been reviewed is not your 
 fault. We are grateful for people sending in patches, and I, too, am 
 embarrassed if we turn them down by just not taking notice of their 
 work...
 
 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > >     Carlo, this report has been sitting idly for a year now.
 > >     What is the present state? Is it still unsolved, or did
 > >     your patch go in?
 > [...]
 > 
 > c++filt of 3.3 does not demangle the correct mangled names (at least the
 > ones I tried) - while it does demangle the old (wrong) mangled names. 
 
 As time progresses, this is becoming more and more irrelevant: as far 
 as I understand you,
 - gcc since 3.0 has a different mangling scheme, which isn't concerned in 
   this PR 
 - gcc up to 2.95 has never generated the cases that your patch addresses
 - gcc 2.95 is certainly not going to be fixed to generate them any more
 - gcc 2.95 is slowly dying out.
 
 The question thus is: if people are not overly interested in your patch 
 (which is regrettable, but apparently the case), then we can as well close 
 the PR. Since if we don't, we'll ask the same question again in a year, 
 and then people will care even less about 2.95.
 
 What's your opinion on this?
 
 Thanks
   Wolfgang
 
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