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Re: D language support
- From: Mihail Zenkov <mihail dot zenkov at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 08:25:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: D language support
- References: <20091224015617.7092112b.mihai.zenkov@gmail.com> <20091230125539.GF2788@adacore.com>
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:55:39 +0400
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> Mihail,
>
> Not bad :). There were a lot of little things, so I focused on the obvious
> (procedural) ones for now, and I will review the contents of your code
> again more carefully on the next revision.
>
> Before I go into the details, I have a question, though: Are you the sole
> author of this patch? I am asking because there are really two distinctive
> coding styles used in this case. One is very different from the style
> used in GDB (and other GNU projects written in C), and the other one
> is pretty spot on in terms of the coding style. Hard to believe that
> the same person wrote both parts! It's very important to know, because
> only the author may assign the copyright to the FSF (IANAL, but I believe
> this to be true).
You right. Initial author is John Demme. I update his patch and add
dynamic array support. AFAIK John Demme also assign copyright papers.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10142
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2005-04/msg00074.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-08/msg00264.html