Copyright status gdb.fortran/vla-stride.exp test-case

Tom de Vries tdevries@suse.de
Tue Aug 18 09:50:29 GMT 2020


On 8/6/20 3:35 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> * Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> [2020-08-06 12:41:36 +0200]:
> 
>> [ was: Re: [PUSHED] gdb/fortran: Support negative array stride in one
>> limited case ]
>>
>> On 2/25/20 5:35 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>>> This issue was identified on the mailing list by Sergio:
>>>
>>>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2020-01/msg00360.html
>>>
>>> The test for this issue is a new one written by me as the copyright
>>> status of the original test is currently unknown.
>>
>> I just ran that test-case on master, and it passes, so it could be
>> committed from that point of view.
>>
>> I've tracked down the test-case to commit 4efec01384 "vla: add stride
>> support to fortran arrays." on user branch
>> origin/users/bheckel/fortran-strides :
>> ...
>> commit 4efec01384648183cff07a8d6f050e47074ecfcd
>> Author: Keven Boell <keven.boell@intel.com>
>> Date:   Wed May 28 14:44:11 2014 +0100
>>
>>     vla: add stride support to fortran arrays.
>>
>>     2014-05-28  Bernhard Heckel  <bernhard.heckel@intel.com>
>>                 Sanimir Agovic  <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
>>                 Keven Boell  <keven.boell@intel.com>
>> ...
>>
>> It's not clear from the patch who contributed to the test-case.
>>
>> Bernard Heckel is listed in MAINTAINERS, the others not, but they are
>> listed in both gdb and gdb/testsuite ChangeLogs.
>>
>> That's as far as I can take it.  Perhaps someone can look up the
>> copyright assignment status.
> 
> I'm confused.  I thought the new test I wrote covered the issues
> Sergio raised.

Right, I'm not questioning that.

> Is there some case that Bernard's test covers that is
> not already covered by the existing Fortran tests?

I don't know.  I assumed that your test covered the problem that was
reported, but not necessarily the whole test in which the problem was found.

>  What's the
> motivation for tracking down the copyright status for this test?

It's part of the fedora patches for gdb, and there is an ongoing effort
to move those to upstream gdb.  And I found that the test-case passed on
trunk, so that looked easy.

Thanks,
- Tom


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