From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32724 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2010 06:25:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 32708 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2010 06:25:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f223.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f223.google.com) (209.85.219.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:25:40 +0000 Received: by ewy23 with SMTP id 23so6575484ewy.4 for ; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.98.140 with SMTP id q12mr365701ebn.1.1263018337900; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (5-243-252-87-dynamic-pool.gprs.mts.by [87.252.243.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm6793167eyg.12.2010.01.08.22.25.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:25:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:25:00 -0000 From: Mihail Zenkov To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: D language support Message-Id: <20100109082524.263bcb17.mihai.zenkov@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091230125539.GF2788@adacore.com> References: <20091224015617.7092112b.mihai.zenkov@gmail.com> <20091230125539.GF2788@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:55:39 +0400 Joel Brobecker wrote: > Mihail, > > Not bad :). There were a lot of little things, so I focused on the obvious > (procedural) ones for now, and I will review the contents of your code > again more carefully on the next revision. > > Before I go into the details, I have a question, though: Are you the sole > author of this patch? I am asking because there are really two distinctive > coding styles used in this case. One is very different from the style > used in GDB (and other GNU projects written in C), and the other one > is pretty spot on in terms of the coding style. Hard to believe that > the same person wrote both parts! It's very important to know, because > only the author may assign the copyright to the FSF (IANAL, but I believe > this to be true). You right. Initial author is John Demme. I update his patch and add dynamic array support. AFAIK John Demme also assign copyright papers. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10142 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-04/msg00074.html http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-08/msg00264.html