See https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2002-03/msg00557.html --- origsrc/gdb-7.8/gdb/symtab.c 2014-07-29 14:37:42.000000000 +0200 +++ src/gdb-7.8/gdb/symtab.c 2014-08-04 12:04:47.173108524 +0200 @@ -641,6 +641,39 @@ symbol_find_demangled_name (struct gener { char *demangled = NULL; + /* On Windows, some functions use the `stdcall' calling convention, + in which the callee is expected to pop the arguments off the + stack. Normally, the caller takes care of this, because only the + caller knows how many arguments it really passed. To avoid + confusion, the linker symbols for `stdcall' functions have names + with a suffix "@N" attached to them, where "N" is the number of + bytes they'll pop. That way, if a caller thinks some `stdcall' + function `foo' expects M argument bytes, but the definition of + `foo' expects N argument bytes, N != M, then the call will be a + reference to `foo@M', but the definition will have a linker + symbol `foo@N', and you'll get a link-time `symbol not found' + error, instead of a crash at run-time. + + (Note how this fails to address calls through function pointers, + since the byte count isn't part of the function pointer's type. + Go, Microsoft!) + + Whatever. But our demangler doesn't like that '@N' suffix, so we + need to strip it off. */ + if (1) + { + char *arg_byte_suffix = strchr (mangled, '@'); + if (arg_byte_suffix) + { + int prefix_len = arg_byte_suffix - mangled; + char *mangled_sans_suffix = alloca (prefix_len + 1); + memcpy (mangled_sans_suffix, mangled, prefix_len); + mangled_sans_suffix[prefix_len] = '\0'; + + mangled = mangled_sans_suffix; + } + } + if (gsymbol->language == language_unknown) gsymbol->language = language_auto;