"Robert Jacques" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:op.vepzxsdx26s...@sandford... > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:47:14 -0400, BCS <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Robert, >> >>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:55:48 -0400, BCS <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The main issue (as I understand it) is adding windows style structured >>> exception handling to LLVM. >>> >> >> After a little digging it seems that LLVM legally CAN'T add SEH as MS >> has it under patent. I'm still digging to figure out how it could be >> patented without making SEH an irrelevant technology. >> > > The patent seems to be Borlands's: > USPTO patent #5,628,016 Patent held by Borland on compiler support for > SEH. > From a Wine wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport > > It does seem to expire on June 15, 2014, though and I assume DigitalMars > has a license, so a LLVM fork is not unreasonable.
Seems a weak reason. A programmer that's worried about infringing software patents can't write anything more useful than "Hello World". I'm seriously not convinced at all that it's even possible to write useful code that doesn't technically infringe on some software patent. As a programmer, either you accept the fact that what you do is inevitably going to trample software patents, or you just simply don't be a programmer. That's all there is.
