c++filt [-_|--strip-underscores]
[-j|--java]
[-n|--no-strip-underscores]
[-p|--no-params]
[-s format|--format=format]
[--help] [--version] [symbol…] |
The C++ and Java languages provides function overloading, which means that you can write many functions with the same name (providing each takes parameters of different types). All C++ and Java function names are encoded into a low-level assembly label (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 the linker can keep these overloaded functions from clashing.
Every alphanumeric word (consisting of letters, digits, underscores, dollars, or periods) seen in the input is a potential label. If the label decodes into a C++ name, the C++ name replaces the low-level name in the output.
You can use c++filt to decipher individual symbols:
c++filt symbol |
If no symbol arguments are given, c++filt reads symbol names from the standard input and writes the demangled names to the standard output. All results are printed on the standard output.
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.
Prints demangled names using Java syntax. The default is to use C++ syntax.
Do not remove the initial underscore.
When demangling the name of a function, do not display the types of the function's parameters.
c++filt can decode various methods of mangling, used by different compilers. The argument to this option selects which method it uses:
Automatic selection based on executable (the default method)
the one used by the gnu C++ compiler (g++)
the one used by the Lucid compiler (lcc)
the one specified by the C++ Annotated Reference Manual
the one used by the HP compiler (aCC)
the one used by the EDG compiler
the one used by the gnu C++ compiler (g++) with the V3 ABI.
the one used by the gnu Java compiler (gcj)
the one used by the gnu Ada compiler (GNAT).
Print a summary of the options to c++filt and exit.
Print the version number of c++filt and exit.
Warning: c++filt is a new utility, and the details of its user interface are subject to change in future releases. In particular, a command-line option may be required in the the future to decode a name passed as an argument on the command line; in other words,
may in a future release become
| [1] | MS-DOS does not allow + characters in file names, so on MS-DOS this program is named cxxfilt. |