[LLVMdev] [lld] adding demangler for symbol resolution

[Welson Sun]

Hi Shankar,

What's the progress of moving the demangler into LLVM? On Windows, I have
to use glog's demangler for now, but I just bumped into a bug in that code
that fails on demangling a function name.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org>
wrote:

> On 4/4/2014 3:46 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
>
>> On 3 Apr 2014, at 20:49, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  b) I am not planning to write a demangler. I was planning on using
>>> abi::__cxx_demangle if there was one available and the first character in
>>> the symbol was a _.
>>>     If MSVC was defined, we would use the Undecorate API.
>>>
>> The demangler that Howard wrote for libc++abi was intended to be general
>> and reusable.  It was rewritten eventually because it wasn't a good fit for
>> the C++ runtime library, but it would make sense to import it into one of
>> the LLVM libraries, as a good, general demangler is something that a lot of
>> things (including lldb) would benefit from.
>>
> + Chandler/Rafael
>
> I agree with this. I will try to move out the function from libc++ abi to
> lib/Support and see if what the reviewers would say.
>
> Makes it much easier to call the functionality instead of each
> tool/component having a separate implementation.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shankar Easwaran
>
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