Dwarf2 minutes, April 4, 2000

[Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>]

Documentation -- Ron Brender 

	Ron has produced an updated draft of the Dwarf2 standard using
	Microsoft Word and Acrobat.  Links within the document are maintained
	in both versions.  This will be posted on the Dwarf2 web page.  Also, 
	a document which shows the differences between the current standard 
	and the draft will be posted.  This change document has added text 
	highlighted, but does not show deleted text.  Changes in tables are 
	not well handled by Word.  

	We need to come up with a plan for reviewing the updated draft
	and verifying that it accurately reflects the approved changes.
	We also need to verify that it is internally consistent and complete.
	Suggestions on how to do this are welcome.

Version:
	There was discussion about the version number of the Dwarf2 standard.  
	It is important that internal draft versions not be used until it has 
	been released by the committee.  The new standard will be Dwarf 2.1.0.

Issue discussion:

000305.1 	Imaginary float

	This is needed to support C9X and is approved.

	There was discussion about type information represented as a TAG or 
	an attribute.  When it is important to show the order of a declaration, 
	TAGs are needed.  In this case, this is a new base type, similar to 
	char or double.
	
000305.2	Restrict

	This is needed to support C9X and is approved.

	Since it is important to identify the order of the restrict keyword,
	this is a TAG, similar to that for const.

000314.1	Dwarf vs Location Expression

	In many places, the Dwarf2 standard uses location expressions to 
	calculate values which are not actually locations.  The standard
	should describe these as dwarf expressions.

	This change is editorial and approved.


Action item -- M. Eager

	Check with XOpen (or OpenGroup) about what rights, if any, they
	have to Unix International intellectual property. Specifically,
	whether they (or any other entity) acquired the copyright to the
	Dwarf2 standard from UI.

	If anyone has information on whether any of UI's assets were acquired
	by any other organization, please let me know.

Action item -- M. Eager

	The following items will be deleted unless someone raises an objection:
		991026.1  Fortran 90 support
		991026.2  C++ support
		991026.4  Java support
		
	There are no proposals associated with these items.  They appear to be
	placeholders which have been replaced by actual proposals.

Action item -- J. Dehnert

	Jim will check with SCO for permission to redistribute the ELF ABI 
	draft.

Action item -- M. Eager

	Proposal 000331.1 should be deleted and replaced with two proposals.	


-- 
Michael Eager	 Eager Consulting     eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077