Re: gdb Digest 7 Nov 2003 16:00:26 -0000 Issue 1325

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Mark Newman wrote:

> JIm -
>
> could you point us to your cvs?

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/tools/cvs/howto.html

But as I told Elena, we got behind in merging what with all we had to 
do for Panther, so I would hold off looking at this for another couple 
of weeks.  It will probably be clearer when Klee is done.

> In addition can you provide a pointer or whatever to
> something that indicates that that code is not Apple
> IP and does not contain any Apple or anyone else's IP?

Our blanket copyright assignment is on file with the FSF, and we 
release all our gdb changes publicly with the FSF copyright statements 
in place.  I think this is sufficient.

Jim

>             Mark
>
>
> --- Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> wrote:
> > Elena,
> >
> > On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:00 AM,
> > gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
> >
> > > the objc support is in gdb mainline and it has
> > been there for a while.
> > > There are some bugs still, but it was merged.
> > > Are you referring to something else?
> >
> > Yes, I was referring to the very beginnings of
> > Adam's work.  Since the
> > tarball of the Apple sources were sitting on the FSF
> > site, he naturally
> > started from there.  But since they had been sitting
> > for a while, the
> > first task he faced was reconciling the changes in
> > the relevant areas
> > of the tarball with the changes in the FSF sources
> > between the time the
> > tarball was dropped and when he got it.  At that
> > time, we were keeping
> > pretty current with the FSF distro, so we had done
> > this job already -
> > and the results were readily available in our CVS
> > repository.  IIRC, we
> > figured out what was going on pretty quickly and set
> > him straight, but
> > that is the sort of pointless duplication of effort
> > that it would be
> > good to avoid.
> >
> > > Same story for the interpreter stuff which Keith,
> > Andrew and I merged.
> > >
> >
> > I am pretty sure Keith worked from our CVS
> > repository, at least that is
> > what I urged him to do.  By the time you & Andrew
> > got to it, I think
> > the work was pretty far along, so you probably
> > didn't have any need to
> > refer to our version.
> >
> > > I think we went through this before, with the
> > previoius tarball.  If
> > > it's too hard a requirement, then let's forget
> > about it. We'll live
> > > with the status quo.
> >
> > It is obviously not hard but I worry it is likely to
> > be
> > counter-productive.  That was what we "went through
> > before" and the
> > event somewhat justified my concerns.
> >
> > Pointing folks at our CVS repository is much easier,
> > and we even have
> > anonymous access now for those who don't want to
> > give out their e-mail
> > addresses...  Plus then they have all the benefits
> > of CVS in trying to
> > figure out why we did all the screwy things we
> > did...
> >
> > Jim
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> > Jim Ingham
> >
> > jingham@apple.com
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Jim Ingham                                                           
jingham@apple.com
Developer Tools - gdb