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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:59:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: demangling cplusplus names in ld output
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I can't remember if FreeBSD's ld ever did demangle cpluplus names
in its output, but I took a look in the source directory today and
saw an extremenly old version of cplus-dem.c that was not even 
being linked with the ld sources and probably wouldn't do much good
if it did.

I certainly find it desirable, does anyone else?  I've made the 
neccesary modifications.  It involves wrapping a function call
around the symbol->name field of each output statement, one small
new function, and linking in the file cplus-dem.c from the gcc 
sources.  

Another approach requiring fewer modifications would be to fork a 
c++filt and pipe the output.

I am willing to make either of these modifications (I'd have to go
over my current sources with a little more scrutiny to make sure
I didn't break it).

-josh