From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16110 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2014 21:54:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16097 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2014 21:54:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-yh0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-yh0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-yh0-f50.google.com) (209.85.213.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:53:58 +0000 Received: by mail-yh0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 29so9887092yhl.37 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:53:57 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.228.202 with SMTP id f70mr21644891yhq.40.1416174836921; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.170.81.68 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20141116032213.GF5774@adacore.com> References: <87d29cvqfu.fsf@codesourcery.com> <87y4rfjm9h.fsf@codesourcery.com> <20141116032213.GF5774@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] Rewrite lookup_static_symbol to use gdbarch routine From: Doug Evans To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Yao Qi , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00384.txt.bz2 On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Joel Brobecker 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.