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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Not Ready for Commercial Use
Message-ID: <6590311@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:24:08 GMT
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>At least I wont be looking at mangled names!

I presume everbody working with 2.0 compilers has found the c++filt 
demangler tool?  For example, one of my favorite tricks to help figure out
what's going on is to do:

CC -O -S someclass.c

sed "s/_//" < someclass.s | c++filt > someclass.S

-- where someclass.S is assembly code with demangled names.  I have to do
the sed "s/_//" stuff because my C compiler adds a prefix "_" to names
when generating assembly.  Nowadays to figure out what a C++ compiler is
doing I look at the generated assembly.  The generated "C" code is hopeless
gobbledygook.