From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13306 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 16:49:55 -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 13285 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 16:49:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 16:49:53 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E078E3D26; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC6E230.6070605@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:49:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs Cc: Kevin Buettner , David Edelsohn , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch References: <200204240341.XAA30704@makai.watson.ibm.com> <1020424075830.ZM12269@localhost.localdomain> <3CC6D06F.5BFD3E8@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00949.txt.bz2 > Kevin Buettner wrote: > >> >> On Apr 23, 11:41pm, David Edelsohn wrote: >> > >> > What is the status of the PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch? Without >> > this patch, GDB does not recognize standard PowerPC64 prologue >> > instructions which makes debugging very difficult. > >> >> I'm working on it. Since we don't have a copyright assignment for >> these changes, [...] > > > Huh? IBM has an overall corporate assignment, just like Cygnus > had and (I assume, not having seen it) Red Hat has now. The last time IBM contributed stuff to GDB was the s390. For that, individual electronic transfer letters were required. Sounds like things have changed since then? Andrew