Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Awesome work, thanks! Already available on Arch Linux indeed, 
just typed objdump as per your post and it worked. Editing my 
dmd.conf right now.

Atila

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 21:31:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure when it was announced, but binutils 2.25 has been 
> released!  There's a small reason for excitement as it is the 
> first to come with D demangling support in the GNU toolchain.
>
> Unfortunately, I forgot to send in patches that actually 
> document it!  So for the moment, it's a little secret feature 
> shared between all who may read this.  :o)
>
>
> How do you use it?
> ---
>
> By default, binutils programs will treat all mangled symbols as 
> C++, however you can override this by using --demangle=dlang, 
> eg:
>
>   objdump -d --demangle=dlang prog.o
>
>   nm --demangle=dlang ddmd
>
>
> You can also kickstart your usage by putting -L--demangle=dlang 
> in your dmd.conf, and watch your obscure linker errors turn 
> into pretty function signatures.
>
>
> How do I get it?
> ---
>
> The release itself is a source package, however a safer choice 
> is to get the release binaries through your Linux distributor.  
> Fortunately, there have been distributions who have been 
> shipping it as early as three weeks ago.
>
> Archlinux users: I'd imagine this is available to use now.
>
> Ubuntu users: You'll have to wait until April with the 15.04 
> release.
>
>
> Bugs and Fixes
> ---
>
> Whilst the demangler is able to handle all things core.demangle 
> can do (and a little bit more!), a small test of running nm 
> against the ddemangle program that gets shipped with dmd 2.066 
> shows that there are still plenty of complex template symbols 
> that it still can't manage.  The implementation itself is 
> pretty straightforward to follow, well documented and written 
> in C.  Volunteers who wish to help out getting as close to 
> 99.99% coverage as possible are welcome!
>
>
> Enjoy!
> Iain.