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

[David Abrahams]

Raoul Gough <RaoulGough at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> The source to the demangler is GPL'd, of course (in
> gcc/libiberty/cp-demangle.c) and is also including in gdb, AFAIK. It's
> currently >3000 lines of code, so I wouldn't recommend trying to
> reimplement it for Boost.Python!

Well, that might just be because it's bad code or written in C with
insufficient abstraction.  From
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2002-June/001277.html it
doesn't look all that hard.

(famous last words).

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Dave Abrahams
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