From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2696 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2007 06:46:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 2688 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Nov 2007 06:46:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.ks.pochta.ru (HELO mail1.ks.pochta.ru) (82.204.219.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:46:29 +0000 Received: from [80.135.25.42] (helo=janus.mylan) by mail1.ks.pochta.ru ( sendmail 8.13.3/8.13.1) with esmtpsa id 1Iu0On-000HO8-2n for gdb@sourceware.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:46:25 +0300 Received: (qmail 31193 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 2007 06:48:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:46:00 -0000 From: Sergei Golubchik To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: DUEL support Message-ID: <20071119064833.GA31161@janus.mylan> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20071117201326.GA25388@janus.mylan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00177.txt.bz2 Hi! On Nov 18, Jim Blandy wrote: > Sergei Golubchik writes: > > Hi. > > > > Is there an interest in having DUEL support in GDB ? > > > > DUEL is a high-level data exploring language, originally written as a > > gdb patch in 1993, for a PhD project. > > > > Apparently, forgotten and abandoned since then, although it made into > > dbx on irix (looks like SGI simply applied it, as the patch is public > > domain) - that's where I first saw the feature. > > > > I found that patch yesterday, ported to 6.6, fixed a few bugs (added > > support for bool, long long, typedefs, references, fixed type parsing, > > etc). Looks like working. I didn't spend too much time on it though, > > the patch definitely needs polishing. > > > > Anybody's interested ? > > DUEL is insanely cool, but last I knew, its author was very hostile to > the GPL, and refused to assign his changes to the FSF. Yes, according to the "GPL vs. public domain" file in the distribution he was (though it was in 1993). But why would it matter, he explicitly put his patch under public domain ? Regards / Mit vielen Grüssen, Sergei -- __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Sergei Golubchik / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ Principal Software Developer /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL GmbH, Dachauer Str. 37, D-80335 München <___/ Geschäftsführer: Kaj Arnö - HRB München 162140