From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17312 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 15:55:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17272 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 15:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 15:55:50 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-3.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.3]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3OFtod20516 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:55:50 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 3E7B41B965; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:55:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch Message-ID: <20020424155541.GA25021@redhat.com> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200204240341.XAA30704@makai.watson.ibm.com> <1020424075830.ZM12269@localhost.localdomain> <3CC6D06F.5BFD3E8@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC6D06F.5BFD3E8@apple.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00945.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote: >Kevin Buettner wrote: >>On Apr 23, 11:41pm, David Edelsohn wrote: >>>What is the status of the PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch? Without this >>>patch, GDB does not recognize standard PowerPC64 prologue instructions >>>which makes debugging very difficult. >> >>I'm working on it. Since we don't have a copyright assignment for >>these changes, [...] > >Huh? IBM has an overall corporate assignment, just like Cygnus had and >(I assume, not having seen it) Red Hat has now. Can you point to where this is in the copyright assignment list? For Apple, I see this: GDB BFD MMALLOC OPCODES Apple Computer, Inc. 1999-01-22 Assigns past and future changes. I don't see anything remotely similar for IBM. cgf