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From: Devang Patel <dpatel@apple.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: Oscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
	"gcc@gcc.gnu.org list" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	"Edward S. Peschko" <esp5@pge.com>
Subject: Re: open watcom compiling gcc on win32
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <999DD158-5372-11D8-8A8C-000393A91CAA@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3llnpp0og.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>


On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> On the other hand, I've heard several times that Microsoft has
> patented their vtable layout.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? 
Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/ 
srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,297,284.WKU.&OS=PN/5,297,284&RS=PN/ 
5,297,284

[ US Patent Number: 5,297,284]

>  That would make it impossible for gcc
> to emulate it, unless Microsoft gave explicit permission
--
Devang

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-30 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27  8:02 Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-27  8:53 ` Marcel Cox
2004-01-27 18:38   ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-28 20:29     ` Marcel Cox
2004-01-29 23:32       ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-29 23:51         ` DJ Delorie
2004-01-30  0:29           ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-30  0:45             ` DJ Delorie
2004-01-30  1:20               ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-30 17:41                 ` Oscar Fuentes
2004-01-30 21:40                   ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-30 22:21                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-01-30 22:52                       ` Devang Patel [this message]
2004-01-30 22:53                         ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-30 23:25                       ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-31 20:18                         ` Oscar Fuentes
2004-01-30 23:55                       ` tm_gccmail
2004-02-01 14:43                     ` Kai Henningsen
2004-02-02 19:57                       ` Edward S. Peschko
2004-01-30  0:37           ` Jonathan Wilson
2004-02-05  2:28             ` Christopher Faylor
2004-01-30  0:26         ` Jonathan Wilson

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