On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Paul Flinders wrote: >>Also, we are attempting to get XFree86 debug support integrated >>into future FSF gdb. The major holdup is basically nobody knows >>who the original authors of the patches were from way back when >>for proper attribution and copyright assignment and all the other >>joys the FSF requires. >> >>I know one of the authors was Paul Flinders, and I've got an >>email address for him still. Does anyone else know who all >>worked on the XFree86 gdb patches? The only history I know of it >>is: >> >>The version on the XFree86 site is 4.18 or somesuch. I took that >>and ported it about 60% functionally to gdb 5.0, which Paul then >>found out about and finished off the parts that weren't working. >>I later ported it to gdb 5.1.1, and it's partially ported to a >>more recent version as well. >> >I was the original author. I have a record of one patch from Gerd Knorr >(then >[EMAIL PROTECTED]) which was the "PPC port", however that might >just be trivial enough to not need assignment (I've included it below). > >Apart from yourself I don't recall any other contributions but >I will have another look over my email archives. > >I do still check over the list to see if anyone is reporting problems >but hardly anyone ever does. I'm never sure whether to interpret >this as a sign that nobody uses the modified GDB or that it >works fine and no-one is having problems.
Thanks Paul. I'll pass this on to our tools team. As I understand it, they'll be using these patches as more or less guideance on implementing enhanced functionality into gdb that is generic rather than XFree86 specific. The FSF is a bit picky about copyright assignments and derivative works however so they've wanted to clarify this first. If all goes well, hopefully sometime in the next 6-12 months, stock FSF gdb will be able to debug a modular XFree86 X server on various different architectures. I'll be following this quite closely and working with our gdb people to test things, etc. while it is developed. Once there is something useable for other developers to test, I'll look into getting code up somewhere for people to test. It'll be nice to have gdb support for X on as many platforms and architectures as possible. Thanks again for following up. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
