Disable name demangling on GDB startup

Question

This may be a weird request, but is there a way to disable symbol demangling in GDB? Even better would be to disable name demangling for certian subset of symbols. I am dealing with some heavily templated code, and most of the time GDB spends demangling the symbols. Since they are gigantic/nonsensical, and are more compact when they are mangled, is there a way to turn this off?

Answer 1

gdb has a couple of settings to control demangling. You can find them with apropos demangle, but basically the interesting ones are set print demangle and set print asm-demangle.

However, you should know that there's a bug open because this setting was broken and never fixed.