From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28038 invoked by alias); 19 May 2003 13:07:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28030 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 13:07:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blueyonder.co.uk) (195.188.53.96) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 May 2003 13:07:17 -0000 Received: from pc4 ([80.192.58.15]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 19 May 2003 14:09:43 +0100 Received: from jcownie by etnus.com with esmtp (MasqMail 0.1.16) id 19HkLf-5tz-00 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:06:39 +0100 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Naming dwarves In-reply-to: <200305171253.h4HCrTT0012142@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:07:00 -0000 From: James Cownie Message-ID: <19HkLf-5tz-00@etnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00265.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote :- > There is also a public draft for DWARF Version 3, which should be > largely binary compatible with Version 2. Standardization of Version > 3 seems to have stopped, but some of the proposed extensions are > already in use. It's about to start up again (there was a hiatus when the dot com bust happened, since at that point none of the companies wanted to pay any money to have a "real" standard produced). This message from Michael Eager gives the current status Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 12:12:15 -0700 From: Michael Eager To: Dwarf 2 Cc: Scott McNeil Subject: DWARF Standard becoming part of Free Standards Group Sender: owner-dwarf2@els.sgi.com As you may know, for some time I've been working on finding a standards organization with which to affiliate the DWARF standard. I've looked into a variety of organizations, ranging from the "heavy weight's" of ANSI or IEEE, and the lighter weight organization like IEEE-ISTO. I believe that the Free Standards Group offers us an excellent combination of stability and public visiblity. You may be familiar with Free Standards Group because it is the home of the Linux Standards Base (FSG and LSB, respectively, for those who like TLAs). You can find more info about FSG at http://www.freestandardsgroup.org. While FSG has been closely associated with Linux in the past, its charter is broader and does encompass architecture-independent standards like DWARF. In the next few weeks, we will create a web page at FSG for DWARF which will include the Public Review Draft which has been languishing on my system for a long while. We will arrange for public comments to be collected and evaluated. I also hope to be able to add a FAQ and perhaps some other materials to the web site which will make using DWARF easier. FSG also has facilities for spam-filtered mailing lists. -- Michael Eager Eager Consulting eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 The DWARF 3 site is at http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm I'm not sure how you get on the mailing list, but talking to Mike Eager seems a good start... -- Jim James Cownie Etnus, LLC. +44 117 9071438 http://www.etnus.com