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Re: Rework profiling (gprof) package
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:22, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:43, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >
> >>Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Index: services/profile/gprof/current/include/gmon_out.h
> >>>===================================================================
> >>>RCS file: services/profile/gprof/current/include/gmon_out.h
> >>>diff -N services/profile/gprof/current/include/gmon_out.h
> >>>--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> >>>+++ services/profile/gprof/current/include/gmon_out.h 14 Nov 2002 21:58:31 -0000
> >>>@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
> >>>+// Slightly adapted for eCos environment
> >>>+
> >>>+/* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>>+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
> >>>+ Contributed by David Mosberger <davidm@cs.arizona.edu>.
> >>>+
> >>>+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> >>>+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
> >>>+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
> >>>+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
> >>
> >>We cannot have LGPL licensed software in eCos.
> >>
> >
> >
> > How to handle this? It's just the header, included to be compatible.
>
> I'm not sure. Is there some other non-glibc version around? For example I
> see
> http://examples.oreilly.com/palmprog/CDROM/Linux/libs_utils/binutils-2.7/gprof/gmon_out.h
> which implies glibc probably just imported that and slapped their own
> licence on, when there was not necessarily a reason to. (And we do the
> same of course so can hardly complain :-)).
Yes, I found another in "dietlibc"
ftp://foobar.math.fu-berlin.de/pub/dietlibc/
Since all I care about is matching structures, how about if I just
import those (from dietlibc which claims to be GPL) or elsewhere
instead of the whole file?
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