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Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> 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.
Is that all it shows for Apple? We have a GCC assignment that's
more recent. My list is out of date, I just remember discussing
IBM's assignment a while back.
Stan