Re: [PATCH 7/9] Rewrite lookup_static_symbol to use gdbarch routine

[Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
>> To keep things moving along I added the copyright headers.
>
> Thanks for doing that.
>
>> However, I think we could be a bit more lax when it comes to
>> such trivial testcases.
>
> The FSF allows us to be lax for trivial files (with 10 lines being
> one explicit limit on triviality).  But:
>
> The problem with being lax is that it creates a little extra work
> for us at the start of each year, when we update the copyright headers.
> The FSF has been asking us to look into copyright headers in the past,
> and it was a lot of work, so I've added a bit of simple-minded code
> to the script that updates the copyright headers in GDB to also issue
> a warning if a copyright header hasn't been found. That way, we can
> then investigate the few problematic files each year rather than
> a massive number when the FSF notices something.
>
> That's why I always appreciate the copyright headers being added
> right from the start.
>
> So, again, thanks a lot for adding those! :)

No worries.
A few more words added to the wiki to added the needed context and
clarity would be great.
I'll do that.