[LLVMdev] [lld] adding demangler for symbol resolution

[Shankar Easwaran]

Sorry, I am not working on that at present.

On 12/11/2014 1:01 PM, Welson Sun wrote:
> 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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