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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Sean Kelly wrote:

> >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes:
> 
>     Chuck> ... a tool called c++filt.
> 
> Is there any chance we can get this into the base FreeBSD
> distribution ... /usr/bin/c++filt?

The only way I know how to build it is to build binutils, and it's one of 
the few things in binutils that FreeBSD doesn't hack into pieces, so it 
works fine.  I understand for gcc-2.7.2, they tossed it into the compiler 
package (where it clearly belonged).  I don't know the legality of 
busting up the binutils code, so I could excerpt the c++filt stuff.  I 
asked on the list about a year ago when I first found it, but got no 
straight answers.  I am uneasy about that monstrous GPL license, I'm no 
lawyer and I don't want folks unhappy with me legally.

I NEEDED c++filt for a beginning c++ class at the university.  What a 
lifesaver!  Anyone who codes in c++ is simply crazy not to have it.  That 
is, of course, unless they never make a mistake .....


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Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2
 
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