Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> >Kevin Buettner wrote:
> >>On Apr 23, 11:41pm, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >>>What is the status of the PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch?  Without this
> >>>patch, GDB does not recognize standard PowerPC64 prologue instructions
> >>>which makes debugging very difficult.
> >>
> >>I'm working on it.  Since we don't have a copyright assignment for
> >>these changes, [...]
> >
> >Huh?  IBM has an overall corporate assignment, just like Cygnus had and
> >(I assume, not having seen it) Red Hat has now.
> 
> Can you point to where this is in the copyright assignment list?  For
> Apple, I see this:
> 
> GDB BFD MMALLOC OPCODES Apple Computer, Inc.    1999-01-22
> Assigns past and future changes.
> 
> I don't see anything remotely similar for IBM.

Is that all it shows for Apple?  We have a GCC assignment that's
more recent.  My list is out of date, I just remember discussing
IBM's assignment a while back.

Stan