>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin André <hyperquan...@gmail.com> writes:
Pierre> I would like user of the plugin to give in arguments the name of Pierre> the functions on which he would like a test to be run. That Pierre> means that I must convert the string containing a function name Pierre> (like "myclass::init") and get either the mangled name or the Pierre> tree corresponding to the function. I know that there might be Pierre> several results (functions with the same name and different Pierre> arguments), a good policy for me would be to recover every Pierre> concerned functions (at least for the moment). Pierre> I guess what I want to do is possible, because there are already Pierre> some tools doing it (like gdb). Kevin> Are you absolutely sure about gdb? It could be doing it the other way Kevin> around, i.e. start from the mangled names in the object file and Kevin> demangle all of them. Then it would search for a function name in its Kevin> list of demangled names. Kevin> Just guessing, though :) GDB has to be able to canonicalize a name in order to look in up in the symbol table. At least, that is true given the current implementation of GDB's symbol tables. So, GDB has a parser for C++ names that breaks the names up and then reconstructs them in a canonical form. See cp-name-parser.y. GDB does not perform mangling. As far as I know, nothing outside of g++ does. The demangle-and-compare approach is more complicated than you might think. E.g., should it work if the user uses the name of a typedef? Tom
