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Authored by emaste on Mar 4 2026, 7:19 PM.
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The LLVM_CXXFILT option was added when we used ELF Tool Chain tools by
default, because ELF Tool Chain's c++filt failed to demangle some
symbols.  It became the default in commit 9fa94e1c099d ("Turn on
WITH_LLVM_CXXFILT by default").

We now use LLVM binutils by default, and we can simplify the build logic
by moving llvm-cxxfilt under that build option.

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