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

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Fri Jul 11 20:47:49 CEST 2003


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

> David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> Adam Hupp <hupp at cs.wisc.edu> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:18:58PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>>>> It's even easier than that; GCC supplies a library with a function
>>>> you can call to demangle these names.  I've forgotten the name, of
>>>> course :(
>>>
>>> See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1441745
>>
>> Of course, we still have the GPL problem if we link to that :(
>
> I don't get it - would you be releasing binaries which include
> __cxa_demangle but no other (L)GPL'd code? I mean, if the binary came
> out of g++ then you've probably got LGPL'd libstdc++ code already.

What about MinGW?

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