Re: ld -R documentation; c++filt confusion

[Ian Lance Taylor]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> ld --help mentions that "-R dirname" is equivalent to "-rpath
> dirname", but the man page doesn't.

This is already fixed in the development sources.  Thanks.

> binutils and gcc each provide a c++filt command.  Is there any
> difference?  Why are there two?  Which one should I use?

There are two for historical reasons.  It was in the binutils first,
and was later added to gcc, to ensure that in any given release
c++filt was in sync with the g++ mangling scheme used in that release.
It could probably be dropped from the binutils, but nobody has pushed
hard for it.

The binutils c++filt and the gcc c++filt are sometimes different in
detail, but they are generally more or less the same.  They are built
from the same source code, but the exact version of that source used
in particular releases may differ.

Ian