• Zheng (Vic) Luo (9/9) Jul 17 2018 Hi,
• Seb (6/14) Jul 17 2018 It probably doesn't support the new back-referencing yet.

Zheng (Vic) Luo <vicluo96 gmail.com> writes:

Hi,
I built a simple program with dmd a.d and tried to observe 
symbols with nm --demangle=dlang ./a. However, I can observe that 
only part of the symbols (e.g., std.stdio.File.size()) are 
demangled, while others remain in their original name (e.g., 
_D3std5stdio4File8opAssignMFNfSQBdQBcQzZv). Is this a bug of nm? 
Moreover, what is the suggested way to demangle symbol names in 
dlang?

Thanks

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 15:39:39 UTC, Zheng (Vic) Luo wrote:
 Hi,
 I built a simple program with dmd a.d and tried to observe 
 symbols with nm --demangle=dlang ./a. However, I can observe 
 that only part of the symbols (e.g., std.stdio.File.size()) are 
 demangled, while others remain in their original name (e.g., 
 _D3std5stdio4File8opAssignMFNfSQBdQBcQzZv). Is this a bug of nm?

It probably doesn't support the new back-referencing yet.

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.077.0.html#mangleBackref
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/12/20/ds-newfangled-name-mangling/

 Moreover, what is the suggested way to demangle symbol names in 
 dlang?

ddemangle (it should be part of your distribution or release 
archive)