From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Shebs To: muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Pascal extensions for GDB Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <199910252247.PAA10969@andros.cygnus.com> References: <199910220758.JAA04940@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr> X-SW-Source: 1999-q4/msg00095.html Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:48:51 +0200 From: Pierre Muller I would like to submit a big patch for GDB adding support for pascal language ! This is very exciting! I've long wanted to see a Pascal frontend for GDB. This patch is approx 750k long so I do not send it directly now ! If you put it on an ftp site and tell us the location, that would be just as good, at least for now. At this point, it's most helpful to get a sense of the scale and impact of the changes. Please give me some advices about what I should do ! If you haven't looked at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/contribute.html already, you'll probably find that helpful. For a large patch such as you have in mind, the copyright assignment is very important; unless the FSF has legal ownership, there is always the risk that someone will come along later and try to take it back (this can happen even in an academic institute; indeed, MIT's sale of Macsyma to Symbolics was one of the incidents that led to the GNU project being formed). PS : FPC supports long double in 10 bytes instead of 12 like in C ! Is that supported with your current FPU patches ?? Not having seen the patches, I can't say for sure - it depends on how the compiler records info about long doubles, among other things. Stan