c++filt
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Name
c++filt - Demangle C++ and Java symbols.
Synopsis
c++filt [-_|--strip-underscore]
[-n|--no-strip-underscore]
[-p|--no-params]
[-t|--types]
[-i|--no-verbose]
[-s format|--format=format]
[--help] [--version] [symbol...]
Description
GNU Development Tools C++FILT(1)
NAME
c++filt - Demangle C++ and Java symbols.
SYNOPSIS
c++filt [-_|--strip-underscore]
[-n|--no-strip-underscore]
[-p|--no-params]
[-t|--types]
[-i|--no-verbose]
[-s format|--format=format]
[--help] [--version] [symbol...]
DESCRIPTION
The C++ and Java languages provide function overloading,
which means that you can write many functions with the same
name, providing that each function takes parameters of
different types. In order to be able to distinguish these
similarly named functions C++ and Java encode them into a
low-level assembler name which uniquely identifies each
different version. 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
they can be read.
Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits,
underscores, dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a
potential mangled name. If the name decodes into a C++
name, the C++ name replaces the low-level name in the
output, otherwise the original word is output. In this way
you can pass an entire assembler source file, containing
mangled names, through c++filt and see the same source file
containing demangled names.
You can also use c++filt to decipher individual symbols by
passing them on the command line:
c++filt <symbol>
If no symbol arguments are given, c++filt reads symbol names
from the standard input instead. All the results are
printed on the standard output. The difference between
reading names from the command line versus reading names
from the standard input is that command line arguments are
expected to be just mangled names and no checking is
performed to separate them from surrounding text. Thus for
example:
c++filt -n _Z1fv
will work and demangle the name to "f()" whereas:
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c++filt -n _Z1fv,
will not work. (Note the extra comma at the end of the
mangled name which makes it invalid). This command however
will work:
echo _Z1fv, | c++filt -n
and will display "f(),", i.e., the demangled name followed
by a trailing comma. This behaviour is because when the
names are read from the standard input it is expected that
they might be part of an assembler source file where there
might be extra, extraneous characters trailing after a
mangled name. For example:
.type _Z1fv, @function
OPTIONS
-_
--strip-underscore
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.
-n
--no-strip-underscore
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.
-t
--types
Attempt to demangle types as well as function names.
This is disabled by default since mangled types are
normally only used internally in the compiler, and they
can be confused with non-mangled names. For example, a
function called "a" treated as a mangled type name would
be demangled to "signed char".
-i
--no-verbose
Do not include implementation details (if any) in the
demangled output.
-s format
--format=format
c++filt can decode various methods of mangling, used by
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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.
@file
Read command-line options from file. The options read
are inserted in place of the original @file option. If
file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option
will be treated literally, and not removed.
Options in file are separated by whitespace. A
whitespace character may be included in an option by
surrounding the entire option in either single or double
quotes. Any character (including a backslash) may be
included by prefixing the character to be included with
a backslash. The file may itself contain additional
@file options; any such options will be processed
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recursively.
FOOTNOTES
1. MS-DOS does not allow "+" characters in file names, so
on MS-DOS this program is named CXXFILT.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Availability | developer/gnu-binutils |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------------+
SEE ALSO
the Info entries for binutils.
COPYRIGHT
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1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the
Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with
no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy
of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
Documentation License".
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.23.1.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/.
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