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Re: [PATCH] ia64: accept alternative forms of .pred.rel
- From: James E Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:27:21 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: accept alternative forms of .pred.rel
- References: <s1ff387d.041@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:07, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I assume this is because these are rather aged;
Yes, I noticed that the manual hasn't been updated since 2001, though
the sources seem to have been updated every year. This is unfortunate.
We can't keep gas compatible with ias if we can't get documentation.
> learned about them (perhaps release notes). In any case I would think
> one could check with their assembler sources, but the simple observation
> that ias accepts these speaks for itself, I guess.
I can't look at the Intel assembler sources. If I do, then any gas
sources I write would be a derived work, subject to copyright by Intel.
And since I can't get a copyright assignment from Intel, I would no
longer to able to contribute to gas.
> I'll wait for your final agreement to commit based on the above.
Yes, it is OK.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com