Dwarf 2 Minutes -- January 9, 2001

[Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>]

IEEE-ISTO
	Eager has received copies of the Operating Procedures and
	Membership Forms for two groups which are operating under
	the auspices of IEEE-ISTO.  He will revise them to apply to
	Dwarf 2 and distribute them for comment.  A logo is needed.

Incomplete Proposals
	991026.3   Duplicate Dwarf data deletion
		Dave Anderson will chair a subcommittee with Ron Brender
		and Ulrich Drepper to finalize this proposal.  A final 
		version is expected no later than April 1.

        991108.2   C++ virtual functions
		Rejected with the recommendation that this be implemented
		as a vendor extension.  The comments on this topic in 
		email from Feb 21, 2000, will be appended to the proposal.
		
        991108.13  Unwinding stacks (DW_CFA)
		This appears to have been address in 001012.1 and 000330.1.

Late proposal
	We discussed whether the proposal submitted Dec 13, 2000, should be
	considered.  After it was explained that it had no relationship to 
	either 001101.1 or 001130.1 (despite its appearance to either modify 
	or depend upon these proposals), and that it only applied to location
	lists, it was decided to request that this proposal be redrafted for
	consideration by the committee.  Dave Weatherford noted that the
	proposal appeared to be addressed by existing text in the standard.

Discontiguous scopes
	Ron Brender will redraft 001130.1 to apply to Loclists.

Other issues
	Eager will prepare a proposal on versioning Dwarf 2.  

	Publication of the standard for public review is delayed until
	April, to allow time for duplicate Dwarf elimination issued to
	be fully explored, possibly for inclusion as an additional 
	chapter in the document.

	It was noted that there were a large number of outstanding issues
	related to Java.  The committee felt that it was unlikely that
	any concrete proposals would be forthcoming that would address
	these issues.  Java will be listed as partially supported (as 
	represented by a dagger in Figure 27 in  (draft 5) Section 7.12).
	

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