[C++-sig] Re: todo.txt "Implement type_info streaming for GCC"

Raoul Gough RaoulGough at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jul 11 19:50:18 CEST 2003


David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Adam Hupp <hupp at cs.wisc.edu> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:18:58PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>>> It's even easier than that; GCC supplies a library with a function
>>> you can call to demangle these names.  I've forgotten the name, of
>>> course :(
>>
>> See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1441745
>
> Of course, we still have the GPL problem if we link to that :(

I don't get it - would you be releasing binaries which include
__cxa_demangle but no other (L)GPL'd code? I mean, if the binary came
out of g++ then you've probably got LGPL'd libstdc++ code already.

-- 
Raoul Gough
"Let there be one measure for wine throughout our kingdom, and one
measure for ale, and one measure for corn" - Magna Carta





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