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| author | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 1999-08-08 18:18:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 1999-08-08 18:18:11 +0000 |
| commit | 9d51cc66fb8587ea050f2f3d779d1e994b57a9a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 644ea8b70ef13b63b4d0156626c04545a1337617 /binutils/binutils.texi | |
| parent | 8a9659466d632a11d3fdda3054125513721cfc7e (diff) | |
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From Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
* binutils.texi: Document cxxfilt as MS-DOS name for c++filt.
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diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi index 535df3f..83ab291 100644 --- a/binutils/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/binutils.texi @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ List printable strings from files Discard symbols @item c++filt -Demangle encoded C++ symbols +Demangle encoded C++ symbols (on MS-DOS, this program is named +@code{cxxfilt}) @item addr2line Convert addresses into file names and line numbers @@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ Create the files needed to build and use Dynamic Link Libraries * strings:: List printable strings from files * strip:: Discard symbols * c++filt:: Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols +* cxxfilt: c++filt. MS-DOS name for c++filt * addr2line:: Convert addresses to file and line * nlmconv:: Converts object code into an NLM * windres:: Manipulate Windows resources @@ -1707,7 +1709,7 @@ Verbose output: list all object files modified. In the case of archives, @samp{strip -v} lists all members of the archive. @end table -@node c++filt +@node c++filt, addr2line, strip, Top @chapter c++filt @kindex c++filt @@ -1721,13 +1723,17 @@ c++filt [ -_ | --strip-underscores ] [ --help ] [ --version ] [ @var{symbol}@dots{} ] @end smallexample +@kindex cxxfilt The C++ and Java languages provides function overloading, which means that you can write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters of different types). All C++ and Java function names are encoded into a low-level assembly label (this process is known as -@dfn{mangling}). The @code{c++filt} program does the inverse mapping: it -decodes (@dfn{demangles}) low-level names into user-level names so that -the linker can keep these overloaded functions from clashing. +@dfn{mangling}). The @code{c++filt} +@footnote{MS-DOS does not allow @kbd{+} characters in file names, so on +MS-DOS this program is named @code{cxxfilt}.} +program does the inverse mapping: it decodes (@dfn{demangles}) low-level +names into user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded +functions from clashing. Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits, underscores, dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a potential label. If the |