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Re: [PATCH] Let dwarf2 CFI's execute_stack_op be used outside of CFI
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dan at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:59:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let dwarf2 CFI's execute_stack_op be used outside of CFI
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204022147350.6886-100000@dberlin.org>
Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Of course, the hilarious part of all this work is that Intel did it once
> already, including writing what appears to be their own compatible
> libdwarf (At least, I don't have much older versions of libdwarf, but the
> copyrights aren't in the intel version, but all the interfaces are the
> same. It also supports some things libdwarf still doesn't, which makes me
> think it was done separately), and rewriting dwarf2read.c to use it.
>
> 3 years ago, by the timestamps (they are all timestamp'd at March 8,
> 1999).
It's older than that - I was trying to get them to donate it to
the FSF back around 1996 or so, when the i960 folks made a big
switch over to ELF/DWARF. Alas, they wanted to retain control of
it or some such, which in the long run didn't do them a bit of good,
of course.
Stan
PS I wonder if corporations would be more willing to donate these
things if they got a tax break for them...