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diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
index 748e8196ab..6395184956 100644
--- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
@@ -6499,8 +6499,25 @@ ada_collect_symbol_completion_matches (completion_tracker &tracker,
if (completion_skip_symbol (mode, msymbol))
continue;
+ language symbol_language = MSYMBOL_LANGUAGE (msymbol);
+
+ /* Ada minimal symbols won't have their language set to Ada. If
+ we let completion_list_add_name compare using the
+ default/C-like matcher, then when completing e.g., symbols in a
+ package named "pck", we'd match internal Ada symbols like
+ "pckS", which are invalid in an Ada expression, unless you wrap
+ them in '<' '>' to request a verbatim match.
+
+ Unfortunately, some Ada encoded names successfully demangle as
+ C++ symbols (using an old mangling scheme), such as "name__2Xn"
+ -> "Xn::name(void)" and thus some Ada minimal symbols end up
+ with the wrong language set. Paper over that issue here. */
+ if (symbol_language == language_auto
+ || symbol_language == language_cplus)
+ symbol_language = language_ada;
+
completion_list_add_name (tracker,
- MSYMBOL_LANGUAGE (msymbol),
+ symbol_language,
MSYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (msymbol),
lookup_name, text, word);
}