From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23845 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 17:55:18 -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 23780 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 17:55:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 17:55:10 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3OHtAs10780 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:54:42 -0700 Received: from apple.com (vpn-gh-556.apple.com [17.254.138.43]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3OHt9s22327 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CC6F179.E513652A@apple.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:55:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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> <20020424155541.GA25021@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00955.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote: > >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. > > Can you point to where this is in the copyright assignment list? For > Apple, I see this: > > GDB BFD MMALLOC OPCODES Apple Computer, Inc. 1999-01-22 > Assigns past and future changes. > > I don't see anything remotely similar for IBM. Is that all it shows for Apple? We have a GCC assignment that's more recent. My list is out of date, I just remember discussing IBM's assignment a while back. Stan