From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32511 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2004 18:20:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 32421 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2004 18:20:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.5) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 10 Jun 2004 18:20:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 2039 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2004 18:20:43 -0000 Received: from taltos.codesourcery.com (zack@66.92.218.83) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 10 Jun 2004 18:20:43 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:20:42 -0700 To: law@redhat.com Cc: Jerry Quinn , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [patch] Minor improvement to typeclass.h References: <877julhhlb.fsf@codesourcery.com> <1086817343.18174.320.camel@speedy> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1086817343.18174.320.camel@speedy> (Jeffrey A. Law's message of "Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:42:23 -0600") Message-ID: <878yevcm11.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00665.txt.bz2 Jeffrey A Law writes: >> I think this file should be under the libgcc exception. > Why? > > typeclass.h isn't used inside libgcc at all, nor is it installed > for use by users. It's usage appears to be strictly within GCC > itself -- which would indicate to me it ought to be straight GPL. It defines the return values of __builtin_classify_type. Assuming that's an extension we still need (it's not used anywhere in the current source tree, and the documentation mentions it only in the junk description of how we used to implement stdarg.h) it might be a useful header to install, and therefore ought to be under the libgcc exception, in case we decide to do that in the future. zw