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PATCH: Fix demangler in symbol versioning

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Thu Dec 4 23:11:00 GMT 2003 
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> > DMGL_TYPES tells the demangler to see if the string is the mangled
> > version of a type encoding.  I don't think the compiler will ever use
> > a type encoding as an external symbol name--that doesn't even really
> > make sense--so I don't think there is any need for DMGL_TYPES here.
> > 
> 
> Will it lead to incorrect output? If not, I'd like to add it.

It could conceivably lead to incorrect output.  I don't know.  For
example, if you call cplus_demangle ("i", DMGL_TYPES), you will get
"int".  So if there is an external variable named `i', it seems
conceivable that the wrong thing would happen.  I haven't thought
about whether this could really happen, though.

Ian
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