On 11/11/10 4:54 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Just saw another linker error in d.learn, and it got me thinking
dmd just calls the linker, and the linker spits out link errors. But
what if we had a 'linker wrapper' program which translated mangled names
into demangled names? It would at least help people understand the
problem better. How many times does a newbie come back and say "I have
this problem, and dmd spits out some weird message I don't understand"
and it takes a person who half-speaks mangled d names to understand what
the name is.
Given that D already includes a demangler, wouldn't it be rather trivial
to write this program in D?
I know it would make my life a bit better.
Thoughts? Takers?
-Steve
Would love to see this implemented. Mangled symbols are the main reason
for which linker messages are considered incomprehensible.
Andrei
