Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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?
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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?
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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
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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.