arm-wince-pe-c++filt(1)

arm-wince-pe-c++filt1

Demangle c++ and java symbols.

Usage

c++filt [-_⎪--strip-underscores] [-j⎪--java] [-n⎪--no-strip-underscores] [-p⎪--no-params] [-s format⎪--format=format] [--help] [--version] [symbol ...]

Overview

The C++ and Java languages provides function overloading, which means that you can write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters of different types). All C++ and Java function names are encoded into a low-level assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt [1] program does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names into user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions from clashing.

Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits, underscores, dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a potential label. If the label decodes into a C++ name, the C++ name replaces the low-level name in the output.

You can use c++filt to decipher individual symbols:

        c++filt <symbol>

If no symbol arguments are given, c++filt reads symbol names from the standard input and writes the demangled names to the standard output. All results are printed on the standard output.

Options

-_
--strip-underscores

On some systems, both the C and C++ compilers put an underscore in front of every name. For example, the C name "foo" gets the low-level name "_foo". This option removes the initial underscore. Whether c++filt removes the underscore by default is target dependent.

-j
--java

Prints demangled names using Java syntax. The default is to use C++ syntax.

-n
--no-strip-underscores

Do not remove the initial underscore.

-p
--no-params

When demangling the name of a function, do not display the types of the function's parameters.

-s format
--format=format

c++filt can decode various methods of mangling, used by different compilers. The argument to this option selects which method it uses:

"auto"

Automatic selection based on executable (the default method)

"gnu"

the one used by the GNU C++ compiler (g++)

"lucid"

the one used by the Lucid compiler (lcc)

"arm"

the one specified by the C++ Annotated Reference Manual

"hp"

the one used by the HP compiler (aCC)

"edg"

the one used by the EDG compiler

"gnu-v3"

the one used by the GNU C++ compiler (g++) with the V3 ABI.

"java"

the one used by the GNU Java compiler (gcj)

"gnat"

the one used by the GNU Ada compiler (GNAT).

--help

Print a summary of the options to c++filt and exit.

--version

Print the version number of c++filt and exit.

Footnotes

1.

MS-DOS does not allow "+" characters in file names, so on MS-DOS this program is named c++filt.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–5.0

From pocketpc-binutils 2.15-2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.