[PATCH] D34668: llvm-nm: Add suport for symbol demangling (-C/--demangle)

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits]

Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> writes:

> Am I right that you’re suggesting that llvm-ar and llvm-nm could support only newer bitcode files that have symbol tables, while other uses of old bitcode files (e.g., for LTO) would continue to work? I can’t think of anything offhand that would be broken by that.

That is correct. Only llvm-nm and llvm-ar would change. llvm-nm would be
unable to print symbols from old bitcode files. llvm-ar would still
create an archive, but the old bitcode members would not contribute to
the archive symbol table.

Cheers,
Rafael