[lsb-discuss] Possible license issue with libchk bug fix

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Wed Oct 11 13:24:33 PDT 2006


>On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:46 +0200, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>> Why aren't you just #including <cxxabi.h> for __cxa_demangle
>> declarations, and linking against libsupc++/libstdc++? This is the
>> approved end-user interface for C++ demangling.
>
>Out of deference to the double-underscores, which I've generally taken
>as shorthand for "don't use this directly".  The lack of formal
>documentation for the function didn't make me any less wary.

the *only* reason in the more distant past, with all
deference to Jeff's current caution, is that there was
no other reason for libchk to have linked with libstdc++.




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