Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Mark Newman wrote:

> JIm -
>
> could you point us to your cvs?

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/tools/cvs/howto.html

But as I told Elena, we got behind in merging what with all we had to 
do for Panther, so I would hold off looking at this for another couple 
of weeks.  It will probably be clearer when Klee is done.

>
> In addition can you provide a pointer or whatever to
> something that indicates that that code is not Apple
> IP and does not contain any Apple or anyone else's IP?
>

Our blanket copyright assignment is on file with the FSF, and we 
release all our gdb changes publicly with the FSF copyright statements 
in place.  I think this is sufficient.

Jim

>
>             Mark
>
>
> --- Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> wrote:
>> Elena,
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:00 AM,
>> gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> the objc support is in gdb mainline and it has
>> been there for a while.
>>> There are some bugs still, but it was merged.
>>> Are you referring to something else?
>>
>> Yes, I was referring to the very beginnings of
>> Adam's work.  Since the
>> tarball of the Apple sources were sitting on the FSF
>> site, he naturally
>> started from there.  But since they had been sitting
>> for a while, the
>> first task he faced was reconciling the changes in
>> the relevant areas
>> of the tarball with the changes in the FSF sources
>> between the time the
>> tarball was dropped and when he got it.  At that
>> time, we were keeping
>> pretty current with the FSF distro, so we had done
>> this job already -
>> and the results were readily available in our CVS
>> repository.  IIRC, we
>> figured out what was going on pretty quickly and set
>> him straight, but
>> that is the sort of pointless duplication of effort
>> that it would be
>> good to avoid.
>>
>>>
>>> Same story for the interpreter stuff which Keith,
>> Andrew and I merged.
>>>
>>
>> I am pretty sure Keith worked from our CVS
>> repository, at least that is
>> what I urged him to do.  By the time you & Andrew
>> got to it, I think
>> the work was pretty far along, so you probably
>> didn't have any need to
>> refer to our version.
>>
>>> I think we went through this before, with the
>> previoius tarball.  If
>>> it's too hard a requirement, then let's forget
>> about it. We'll live
>>> with the status quo.
>>
>> It is obviously not hard but I worry it is likely to
>> be
>> counter-productive.  That was what we "went through
>> before" and the
>> event somewhat justified my concerns.
>>
>> Pointing folks at our CVS repository is much easier,
>> and we even have
>> anonymous access now for those who don't want to
>> give out their e-mail
>> addresses...  Plus then they have all the benefits
>> of CVS in trying to
>> figure out why we did all the screwy things we
>> did...
>>
>> Jim
>>
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Jim Ingham                                                           
jingham@apple.com
Developer Tools - gdb