From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21125 invoked by alias); 28 May 2002 22:54:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21007 invoked from network); 28 May 2002 22:54:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.alinoe.com) (24.132.80.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 May 2002 22:54:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 7649 invoked by uid 500); 28 May 2002 22:54:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:54:00 -0000 From: Carlo Wood To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb bugs showing while working on libcwd Message-ID: <20020529005426.A9248@alinoe.com> References: <20020525033302.A20587@alinoe.com> <20020525014055.GA27211@branoic.them.org> <20020527034255.A25457@alinoe.com> <20020527060329.GA5078@branoic.them.org> <20020527144220.A16085@alinoe.com> <20020527180451.GA5523@branoic.them.org> <20020528020101.A12154@alinoe.com> <20020528081656.GB5390@branoic.them.org> <20020528145020.A17748@alinoe.com> <20020528173746.GA13975@branoic.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020528173746.GA13975@branoic.them.org>; from drow@mvista.com on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:37:46PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00310.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:37:46PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I was just hoping someone more familiar than I with the mangling scheme > could look at the existing one and figure out where the shortcoming > is... The problem is probably a design issue and it will be a lot easier to just completely replace the demangler with mine. Fixing the existing demangler is not a matter of changing a few lines. I've been asked before to donate my demangler to gdb, someone translated it to C and then lost the code again (I wrote it in C++). I've also been asked to donate the demangler to libiberty (by the libstdc++/g++ people) but there where some legal issues... its stupid, the FSF makes it some times impossible to donate code it seems (at least in my case). If one has to sign something before they want to use code then what is the GPL license good for? What about all those people who use the GPL but never bother to gather signatures from all over the world? The "problem" is that Carlo Wood is not my real name, and although I am willing to sign anything and donate anything under the GPL, I do NOT want my real name somewhere on the web or in a searchable database. Now EVERYTIME (and this has come up at least three times very very seriously in the past 8 years) I make a lot of effort to get things arranged, people fail on me and nothing happens. This time I am AGAIN waiting already several months for the response of someone (I just want an 'ok, we won't publish your real name)... Blah. No code then. But in the meantime *I*'d like a working demangler in libiberty as well actually, grrrmmbl. Annoyed, -- Carlo Wood