On 10 Jun 2014, at 03:44, Ed Maste <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same issue in LLVM, and as hacky as it seems, the solution > is to check that the name starts with "_Z" before passing it to > __cxa_demangle. > > For reference the LLVM review for the change is here: > http://reviews.llvm.org/D2552 > > I didn't get around to testing it on Linux; since you have a test > application ready it would be interesting to see the result of > __cxa_demangle("f") there.
If you know that the thing that you are demangling is a symbol name, then you can use the _Z check, which isn't really a hack - it's a marker added to identify C++ symbols. Note that, if you're writing portable code, you need to remember that some systems prepend an underscore to all compiler-generated symbols, so you may also need to check for __Z and trim the leading _. The __cxa_demangle() function has to handle things that are not just symbols (types and so on) and so can't do this test itself. Its most common use is generating a human-friendly error for an uncaught exception, where it is just parsing a type encoding. The demangler that we ship is from libelftc. It also fails on a number of C++11 types and doesn't handle some complex template cases. David _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
