[LLVMdev] C++ demangling in LLVM

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Chandler,

On 05/07/12 09:17, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:10 AM, <bigcheesegs at gmail.com
> <mailto:bigcheesegs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Jul 5, 2012, at 1:08 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com
>     <mailto:chandlerc at google.com>> wrote:
>
>>     In the same way that the core LLVM libraries have support routines for
>>     DWARF, I think that both mangling and demangling should be provided as well.
>
>     How would LLVM provide support for mangling? And what tools actually need
>     it? I also wonder if we need more from a demangler than just a string. I
>     know linker diagnostics would benefit from a deeper understanding of the
>     name without having to parse C++ decls.
>
>
> Somewhat off the cuff, but I think it would be nice if commandline object
> inspection tools could query for a particular symbol when the user specified it
> in the C++, unmangled form.

this would be nice for Ada too, which also does name mangling (differently to
C++ of course) and presumably lots of other languages as well.

Ciao, Duncan.

>
> Generally, it seems useful to unify the mangling and unmangling code if only so
> that we constantly round-trip test both halves and don't end up with divergences.
>
>
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