hi, Daniel Berlin wrote:
This sort of hack is often used to work around what appears to be the inability of gdb to put breakpoints in c++ constructors (or maybe it is bad dwarf2 debugging output by gcc, I don't know).I discovered this when deep hacking into the symbol code of GDB a while ago. Apparently, some people enjoy breakpointing symbols by using the fully mangled name, which appears (nowadays) mainly in the minsym table.
regards, Mathieu
