https://github.com/gimli-rs/cpp_demangle

A crate for demangling C++ symbols
https://github.com/gimli-rs/cpp_demangle

demangle itanium linker-symbol rust

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A crate for demangling C++ symbols

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gimli-rs/cpp_demangle
• Owner: gimli-rs
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2016-12-07T19:07:37.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-15T01:41:03.000Z (17 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-23T06:00:20.718Z (8 days ago)
• Topics: demangle, itanium, linker-symbol, rust
• Language: Rust
• Size: 3.56 MB
• Stars: 300
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 36
• Open Issues: 28
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE-APACHE

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# `cpp_demangle`: a C++ linker symbol demangler

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This crate can parse a C++ “mangled” linker symbol name into a Rust value

describing what the name refers to: a variable, a function, a virtual table,

etc. The description type implements `Display`, producing human-readable text

describing the mangled name. Debuggers and profilers can use this crate to

provide more meaningful output.

C++ requires the compiler to choose names for linker symbols consistently across

compilation units, so that two compilation units that have seen the same

declarations can pair up definitions in one unit with references in another.

Almost all platforms other than Microsoft Windows follow the

[Itanium C++ ABI][itanium]'s rules for this.

[itanium]: https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling

For example, suppose a C++ compilation unit has the definition:

    namespace space {

      int foo(int x, int y) { return x+y; }

    }

The Itanium C++ ABI specifies that the linker symbol for that function must be

named `_ZN5space3fooEii`. This crate can parse that name into a Rust value

representing its structure. Formatting the value with the `format!` macro or the

`std::string::ToString::to_string` trait method yields the string

`space::foo(int, int)`, which is more meaningful to the C++ developer.

## Usage

Add `cpp_demangle` to your crate's `Cargo.toml`:

```toml

[dependencies]

cpp_demangle = "0.4.4"

```

And then demangle some C++ symbols!

```rust

extern crate cpp_demangle;

use cpp_demangle::Symbol;

use std::string::ToString;

let mangled = b"_ZN5space3fooEibc";

let sym = Symbol::new(&mangled[..])

    .expect("Could not parse mangled symbol!");

let demangled = sym.to_string();

assert_eq!(demangled, "space::foo(int, bool, char)");

```

### `no_std` Support

`cpp_demangle` may be configured for working in `no_std` environments that still

have allocation support via the `alloc` crate. This is nightly rust only, at the

moment, since the `alloc` crate's collections aren't stabilized.

Disable the "std" feature, and enable the "alloc" feature:

```toml

[dependencies]

cpp_demangle = {

  version = "0.4.4",

  default-features = false,

  features = ["alloc"]

}

```

## Documentation

[Documentation on docs.rs](https://docs.rs/cpp_demangle)

Example programs:

* [A `c++filt` clone.](./examples/cppfilt.rs)

  Install it locally with this command:

  ```

  cargo install cpp_demangle --example cppfilt

  ```

## Implementation Status

Work is ongoing. While `cpp_demangle` can parse every mangled symbol in

`libiberty`'s demangler's test suite (the canonical Itanium C++ symbol demangler

used by GNU tools such as `c++filt`), it does not format all of them

character-for-character identically. I'm working on fixing that ;)

Despite that, I believe `cpp_demangle` is fairly robust. I've been

running [AFL][] on `cpp_demangle` overnight and it hasn't found any panics for a

long time now (and never found any crashes -- thanks Rust!).

[AFL]: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/afl.rs

## License

Licensed under either of

  * Apache License, Version 2.0 ([`LICENSE-APACHE`](./LICENSE-APACHE) or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

  * MIT license ([`LICENSE-MIT`](./LICENSE-MIT) or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

## Contribution

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for hacking.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted

for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be

dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.