Libmangle

Revision
2283

Author:
The mingw-w64 Dev Team
Version:
1.0

Introduction

Libmangle is library for translating C++ symbols produced by Microsoft Visual Studio C++ suite of tools into human readable names.

Name Mangling

Name mangling is a technique used by modern compilers to add addition information about a function, a structure or a datatype to a symbol name. Information can include call parameter type and return type, symbol namespace and etc. Often, the way the information is encoded in specific to a compiler vendor.

C++ and Name Mangling

Languages such as the C++ language do not define a standard name decoration scheme, most often code produced by one compiler is also incompatible with another C++ compiler ABI wise. Name mangling prevents accidentally linking to code meant for another compiler.

Deciphering Mangled Names

Libmangle allows symbol names on objects created by Microsoft Visual C++ tools to be decoded into human readable names. In addition to easing debugging, it also allows the possibility of non-MSVC tools to examine the objects.

External Links

For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling

Installation

Use the shell script "configure" and pass "--help" for library build and install options.


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