From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15062 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2006 18:17:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 15054 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Aug 2006 18:17:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:34 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GFxIC-0008Ll-50; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:17:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:43:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [i386/fyi] small adjustment to i386 frame code Message-ID: <20060823181732.GA31988@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20060823173849.GG11591@adacore.com> <20060823175109.GA31254@nevyn.them.org> <20060823181036.GE1060@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060823181036.GE1060@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00185.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:10:36AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > It looks like a very nice project for a Windows lover (I'm the > opposite). I wonder what the implications would be in terms of > licensing if we used the header. I'd be willing to do it, but not for free :-) Not least because I'd have to buy a copy of the relevant MS devkit. I am not convinced that integrating this directly into GDB is really a good idea. I would be at least initially inclined to do it in a separate program. Maybe even invoke that program from GDB automatically. The problem is that the mingw32 headers are reverse-engineered, which is OK for relatively "simple" interfaces, but at the rate MS evolves new C++/COM interfaces it's hard to keep up. Even if there aren't GPL issues, I'd believe there might be general FSF issues; it makes me uncomfortable, anyway! -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery