DUEL support

[Jim Blandy]

Sergei Golubchik <sergii at pisem.net> writes:
> Hi.
>
> Is there an interest in having DUEL support in GDB ?
>
> DUEL is a high-level data exploring language, originally written as a
> gdb patch in 1993, for a PhD project.
>
> Apparently, forgotten and abandoned since then, although it made into
> dbx on irix (looks like SGI simply applied it, as the patch is public
> domain) - that's where I first saw the feature.
>
> I found that patch yesterday, ported to 6.6, fixed a few bugs (added
> support for bool, long long, typedefs, references, fixed type parsing,
> etc). Looks like working.  I didn't spend too much time on it though,
> the patch definitely needs polishing.
>
> Anybody's interested ?

DUEL is insanely cool, but last I knew, its author was very hostile to
the GPL, and refused to assign his changes to the FSF.