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From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>,
	<gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA/stabs reader] Fix v3 duplicate constructors problem
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112041038150.5755-100000@www.cgsoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvl7ks3ce08.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com>



On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jason Merrill wrote:

> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:
>
> > I would like gdb to demangle different names differently.
>
> Which brings me to a question: Why don't we demangle them differently?
> Currently, flag_verbose in cp-demangle.c defaults to 0, so the two
> functions are demangled identically.  I think this is wrong, and have
> changed flag_verbose to 1 for my own use.  What do other people think?

IIRC, the reason was that ptype output should be directly usable in the
target language.
We had a large discussion about this sometime in the past year, i can't
quite remember the outcome.
I had a patch to gdb/libiberty that passed DMGL_VERBOSE along (and added
DMGL_VERBOSE to the flags) for this purpose.

>
> Jason
>

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-04  1:09 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-12-04  5:27 ` Jason Merrill
2001-12-04  7:40   ` Daniel Berlin [this message]
2001-12-04  8:58   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found] <20011203154836.A28821@nevyn.them.org>
2001-12-03 13:52 ` Jason Merrill
2001-12-03 14:29   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-03 14:58     ` Jason Merrill
2001-12-03 15:25       ` Michael Snyder
2001-12-04  8:25         ` Jason Merrill
2001-12-04  8:53           ` Jim Blandy
2001-12-04  9:43             ` Joe Buck

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