[KDE/Mac] Review Request 121213: [OS X] correctly parse backtrace for demangling symbols

[Thomas Lübking]

> On Nov. 22, 2014, 11:20 nachm., Thomas Lübking wrote:
> > kdecore/io/kdebug.cpp, line 717
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121213/diff/1/?file=329504#file329504line717>
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> >     Why do you need to sharpen the match?
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     Because otherwise the symbol to be demangled is left with a trailing space, which causes the demangle to fail. Wanna know how I know?
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> Thomas Lübking wrote:
>     Don't know about the GCC behavior on trailing spaces, but one should probably have some "while (in.at(mangledNameEnd) == ' ') --mangledNameEnd;" loop?
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     One could, but why? The start is found with a string, I don't see why the end wouldn't be, given that that loop of yours will always loop just once ...

... or not at all or thrice - depending on how the mangler feels today.

What I mean is that if untrimmed strings are a problem for demangling, one should seek to get rid of all the whitespace generically - i don't care about whether seeking for a string or char, this context is hardly performance critical.


- Thomas


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On Nov. 22, 2014, 11:02 nachm., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 22, 2014, 11:02 nachm.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and kdelibs.
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> Repository: kdelibs
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> Description
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> This patch adapts the parser in `maybeDemangledName` to the backtrace obtained in `kRealBacktrace` on OS X.
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> Diffs
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>   kdecore/io/kdebug.cpp 872a05a 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121213/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works as expected on OS X 10.9.4 .
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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