PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Apr 24 08:55:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:34:07AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
>Kevin Buettner wrote:
>>On Apr 23, 11:41pm, David Edelsohn wrote:
>>>What is the status of the PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch?  Without this
>>>patch, GDB does not recognize standard PowerPC64 prologue instructions
>>>which makes debugging very difficult.
>>
>>I'm working on it.  Since we don't have a copyright assignment for
>>these changes, [...]
>
>Huh?  IBM has an overall corporate assignment, just like Cygnus had and
>(I assume, not having seen it) Red Hat has now.

Can you point to where this is in the copyright assignment list?  For
Apple, I see this:

GDB BFD MMALLOC OPCODES Apple Computer, Inc.    1999-01-22
Assigns past and future changes.

I don't see anything remotely similar for IBM.

cgf



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