From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14603 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2002 20:58:44 -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 14574 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2002 20:58:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2002 20:58:42 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g33Kwgs08603 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:58:41 -0800 Received: from apple.com (vpn-gh-566.apple.com [17.254.138.53]) by scv2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g33Kwei06295; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:58:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3CAB6D42.EEC56984@apple.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:58:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Berlin CC: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let dwarf2 CFI's execute_stack_op be used outside of CFI References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 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...