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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:28:04 -0500 From: "Scott Bambrough" <scottb@corelcomputer.com> My name is Scott Bambrough. I work for Corel Computer, a division of Corel Corporation that manufactures a small computer based on the DEC (now Intel) SA110 processor. Several months ago, working with a some clever folks in Great Britain we began to modify GCC 2.8.1, BINUTILS 2.9.1 and GLIBC 2.1 to understand the ELF binary format on the ARM port of Linux we use on the NetWinder. Today we now have a complete functioning ELF Linux system allowing to run XFree86, KDE, WordPerfect etc. More to the point for this list, is the fact that I modified GDB 4.17 to run on the NetWinder and would like to contribute these changes to the open source community. Cool! I'd certainly like to get these into 4.18 if possible! A copyright assignment for GLIBC was signed November 25 for GLIBC and all our changes have now been integrated into the CVS source tree. I received word on December 11 that the Corel now has copyright assignments in place for GCC, BINUTILS, and GDB. So that leads me to following: I would like to contribute the code if you are interested. I don't think I've seen a note from the FSF yet, but sometimes it takes a couple weeks. My patches are not based on the latest snapshot, and are admittedly not perfect. But if no one is working on this and you are interested I would like to contribute my code, fix up the problems, and actively maintain the port. Assuming you are interested, and no one else is working on it (there wasn't in the last snapshot, but I haven't checked the one announced today) what is the best way to approach this. Send your diffs (-p preferably) from the base version you started with, to gdb-patches@cygnus.com, and we can start sorting things. If you could spare some time to look at a recent snapshot and see how your patches would play with that, it would help in speeding things along. Martin Hunt (hunt@cygnus.com) has expressed a special interest in this, feel free to correspond with him directly also. Thanks again for contributing to GDB! Stan