patch: add mangling for attribute enable_if

David Majnemer david.majnemer at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 11:01:46 PDT 2014


Your std::remove_if would be more concise if it used a lambda instead
of IsNotEnableIfAttr.
On Sun Mar 09 2014 at 10:30:45 AM, Nick Lewycky <nicholas at mxc.ca> wrote:

> The attached mangle-enable_if-1.patch adds a mangling for
> __attribute__((enable_if(expr, string-literal))) to clang.
>
> demangle-enable_if-1.patch adds support to libcxxabi's demangler. This
> patch I'm not very confident in. libcxxabi's cxa_demangle lacks comments
> and assertions, leaving its design criteria a mystery. I think the
> functions return 'first' in case of error. I added a vector<> inside the
> demangler, I don't know whether that's OK because it means doing
> allocation. I don't know what the two strings in the pair in db.names
> are for, but the first one appears to be the demangling so I put it
> there. I don't understand what the members in 'db' are for, since they
> aren't commented (db.tag_templates?). The code is cargo culted from
> parse_template_args and simplified down by making wild assumptions
> (db.tag_templates is always false!) and constant folding.
>
> Also the demangler seems pretty buggy. It wraps expressions in extra
> parentheses which don't correspond to pi .. E expressions (if you were
> to remangle it, you'd get the extra pi .. E). A mangling for "&function"
> ends up demangling "&(function())" which has different semantic meaning.
>   I'm assuming these problems are pre-existing. While "_Z3foo" demangles
> to "foo" and "_Z3foov" demangles to "foo()", the same things with an
> attribute demangle to include parens. For example, "_Z3fooUa3bar" and
> "_Z3fooUa3barv" both demangle to "foo() __attribute__((bar))", never
> "foo __attribute__((bar))".
>
> Finally, I've never even compiled the change to the tests. I have tested
> those exact manglings and seen what cxa_demangle does to them, but it
> was easier to write a standalone tool than to deal with "testit".
>
> Please review!
>
> Nick
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