demangle
verbEtymology From de- + mangle.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To restore the original identifier from (a mangled form).
- When developing in C++, one of usual tasks is to demangle the name of a C++ method. […] Also, see the same source file containing demangled names.2021 September 9, Shi-Rong Liu, Introduction of Name Mangle and Demangle, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2024:
- Transforming C++ ABI identifiers (like RTTI symbols) into the original C++ source identifiers is called "demangling." […] Probably the only times you'll be interested in demangling at runtime are when you're seeing typeid strings in RTTI, or when you're handling the runtime-support exception classes.2025, Free Software Foundation, The GNU C++ Library, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2026: