linker wrapper

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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