Data display syntax

Data display syntax

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

I remember that some time in the last year or two, someone posted an
interesting project to one of the GDB mailing lists.  It was a set of
syntax extensions for describing groups of data (array slices,
strides, one field of every member in an array, et cetera).  It was an
old project, not a new one.  But I can't remember the name, or
find it anywhere.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Jim, maybe you remember?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Re: Data display syntax

[Frederic RISS]

Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 10:36 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz a écrit :
> I remember that some time in the last year or two, someone posted an
> interesting project to one of the GDB mailing lists.  It was a set of
> syntax extensions for describing groups of data (array slices,
> strides, one field of every member in an array, et cetera).  It was an
> old project, not a new one.  But I can't remember the name, or
> find it anywhere.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Jim, maybe you remember?

This sounds like Duel I think:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.3182

But this memory comes from far more that one or two years ago... so it
may be something else

Fred

Re: Data display syntax

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:45:17PM +0100, Frederic RISS wrote:
> This sounds like Duel I think:
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.3182
> 
> But this memory comes from far more that one or two years ago... so it
> may be something else

That's it exactly!  I was thinking of this:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-11/msg00170.html

"data exploring language" - exploring was the word I couldn't come up
with.  And this fits my memory that there was some copyright/licensing
issue, unfortunately :-(

Am I correct that the copyright issues apply to the implementation,
but not to reading the paper and reimplementing the author's ideas,
should someone wish to?

No, I don't have any plans to do so; and yes, obviously credit would
be given.  Someone asked about displaying a field in every element of
an array on IRC this morning, and that reminded me of the DUEL
discussion.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Re: Data display syntax

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:59:28 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> Am I correct that the copyright issues apply to the implementation,
> but not to reading the paper and reimplementing the author's ideas,
> should someone wish to?

Yes.  Ideas are not copyrightable, only the literal code that
implements them is.