Re: [PATCH] Let dwarf2 CFI's execute_stack_op be used outside of CFI

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Of course, the hilarious part of all this work is that Intel did it once
> already, including writing what appears to be their own compatible
> libdwarf (At least, I don't have much older versions of libdwarf, but the
> copyrights aren't in the intel version, but all the interfaces are the
> same. It also supports some things libdwarf still doesn't, which makes me
> think it was done separately), and rewriting dwarf2read.c to use it.
> 
> 3 years ago, by the timestamps (they are all timestamp'd at March 8,
> 1999).

It's older than that - I was trying to get them to donate it to
the FSF back around 1996 or so, when the i960 folks made a big
switch over to ELF/DWARF.  Alas, they wanted to retain control of
it or some such, which in the long run didn't do them a bit of good,
of course.

Stan

PS I wonder if corporations would be more willing to donate these
things if they got a tax break for them...