mdemangle

Thomas Charles CONWAY conway at cs.mu.oz.au
Tue Sep 9 16:13:57 AEST 1997


Hi

I have on my plate at the moment to fix a bug in mdemangle. Mdemangle
represents a double maintanence problem, in as much as the profiler
also does demangling of names. Why not write mdemangle in Mercury,
and share the code?

This would have the disadvantage that any link errors during installation
may not have mdemangle available, but then if link errors occur during
installation, then there was probably a much more serious problem, and
we'd probably want the unmangled output anyway.

If there are no objections, I'll set about making mdemangle a Mercury
program.

(Tyson has observed that startup-time may be an issue for builds with
no link errors. In fact, he suggested using a Perl script to fire up
mdemangle only in the event that it is needed. He aparently knows Perl,
I don't, so maybe he can write the script when it gets to that stage.)

Thomas
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Thomas Conway               				      conway at cs.mu.oz.au
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