Hi Guys,

>>>> Looks good to me.  Independently, do you see a reason not to disable the
>>>> old demangler entirely?

>>   * How likely is it that there are old toolchain in use out there that 
>> still 
>>     use the v2 mangling ?

> GCC 3.0 and up used the new (Itanium C++ ABI) mangling, 2.95 and older used 
> the old
> mangling (2.96-RH used the new mangling I believe).
> So you need compiler older than 17.5 years to have the old mangling.
> Such a compiler didn't support most of the contemporarily used platforms
> though at all (e.g. x86-64, powerpc64le, aarch64, I believe not even
> powerpc64-linux).

Well that is good enough for me. :-)  I do not have the power to approve
the patch, but I would certainly be happy to see it go in.

Cheers
  Nick


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