[C++-sig] Re: Adding documentation

[David Abrahams]

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com> writes:

> Unmangling works correctly under Redhat 8.0 gcc3.2, Redhat WS3 gcc 3.2.3, Mac
> OS 10.3 gcc 3.3. User-defined types (incl. std::string etc.) are also unmangled
> correctly with gcc 3.4.0 (under Redhat 8.0) but the builtin types are not
> unmangled.
>
> With regards to name unmangling, is there a distinction anywhere in
> Boost.Python between user-defined types and builtin types? 

Nope.

> If not the strange behavior must be a feature of gcc 3.4.0 in which
> case I should probably file a bug report.

File it against __cxa_demangle in the runtime support lib.  That's
the culprit.

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Dave Abrahams
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