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Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch
- References: <200204241658.MAA24662@makai.watson.ibm.com>
> Andrew Cagney writes:
>
>
> Andrew> The last time IBM contributed stuff to GDB was the s390. For that,
> Andrew> individual electronic transfer letters were required.
>
> Andrew> Sounds like things have changed since then?
>
> The s390 and ppc64 toolchain contributions were approved by IBM a
> long time ago. It would help if you directly, privately contacted IBM
> colleagues to inquire about the facts instead of sending obtuse comments
> about "streams of patches" and making uninformed decisions.
I'm already doing this (I'm obviously contacting the FSF and not IBM
though).
For reference, the s390 contribution was via:
GDB IBM Corporation ....
Assigns patch gdb-5.1pre-050901-s390.tar.gz available at the URL
http://....linux390/exp_src.html.
(Software Letter)
Andrew