[cxx-abi-dev] 3.4 Demangler API, for types

[Mark Mitchell]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:14, Dennis Handly wrote:
> Does the following mean we need to demangle types from type_info?
> 
> 3.4 Demangler API   (__cxa_demangle)
> 
> o mangled-name is a pointer to a null-terminated array of characters.
> It may be either an external name, i.e.  with a "_Z" prefix, or an
> internal NTBS mangling, e.g.  of a type for type_info.

I'm not sure what c++filt behaves differently when reading "i" from a
file than on the command-line.

The demangler should demangle "i" to "int".

If the name doesn't start with "_Z", the demangler should try to
demangle the name as a "<type>", as you say.

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