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Re: [i386/fyi] small adjustment to i386 frame code
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:10:36AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It looks like a very nice project for a Windows lover (I'm the
> opposite). I wonder what the implications would be in terms of
> licensing if we used the header.
I'd be willing to do it, but not for free :-) Not least because
I'd have to buy a copy of the relevant MS devkit.
I am not convinced that integrating this directly into GDB is really
a good idea. I would be at least initially inclined to do it in a
separate program. Maybe even invoke that program from GDB
automatically.
The problem is that the mingw32 headers are reverse-engineered, which
is OK for relatively "simple" interfaces, but at the rate MS evolves
new C++/COM interfaces it's hard to keep up. Even if there aren't
GPL issues, I'd believe there might be general FSF issues; it makes
me uncomfortable, anyway!
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery