From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13456 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2005 15:38:31 -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 13439 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Oct 2005 15:38:27 -0000 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e35.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.153) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:38:27 +0000 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j93FZl8I020316 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:35:47 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j93FcPtP429670 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:38:25 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j93FcNRr027553 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:38:24 -0600 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.95]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j93FcNWQ027523; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:38:23 -0600 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Decimal Floating Point support for GDB (Part 1: patch)(a sidebar) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:38:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Wu Zhou References: <20051002205724.GB31820@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20051002205724.GB31820@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510030838.25098.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: (an > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:42:36PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote: > > Oh, and in a couple of places your code says: > > + Contributed by Cygnus Support, using pieces from other GDB modules. > > which is not true since you're contributing it :-) > Daniel, To what extreems (or not) should one try to maintain the provinounce of GPL-ed source? In this case, -*something*- in the code Wu was contributing must have come from Cygnus. How much of a 'back trail' should one try to maintain? Is this spelled out anywhere or is it "folk wisdom" one obtains by reading all these mailing lists? This is not a major question, but one I have come up against severial times before. -=# Paul #=-