Pascal extensions for GDB

Stan Shebs shebs@cygnus.com
Mon Oct 25 15:47:00 GMT 1999


   Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:48:51 +0200
   From: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>

     I would like to submit a big patch for GDB adding
   support for pascal language !

This is very exciting!  I've long wanted to see a Pascal frontend
for GDB.

     This patch is approx 750k long 
   so I do not send it directly now !

If you put it on an ftp site and tell us the location, that would be
just as good, at least for now.  At this point, it's most helpful to
get a sense of the scale and impact of the changes.

     Please give me some advices about what I should do !

If you haven't looked at

	http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/contribute.html

already, you'll probably find that helpful.  For a large patch such as
you have in mind, the copyright assignment is very important; unless
the FSF has legal ownership, there is always the risk that someone
will come along later and try to take it back (this can happen even in
an academic institute; indeed, MIT's sale of Macsyma to Symbolics was
one of the incidents that led to the GNU project being formed).

     PS :
      FPC supports long double in 10 bytes instead of 12 like in C !
   Is that supported with your current FPU patches ??

Not having seen the patches, I can't say for sure - it depends on
how the compiler records info about long doubles, among other things.

								Stan



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