public inbox for gdb@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DUEL support
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y7cvgfgw.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071117201326.GA25388@janus.mylan> (Sergei Golubchik's message of "Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:13:26 +0100")


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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-19  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071116115303.GA18919@janus.mylan>
2007-11-17 20:11 ` Sergei Golubchik
2007-11-19  2:02   ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2007-11-19  6:46     ` Sergei Golubchik
2007-11-19  6:50       ` Robert Dewar
2007-11-19  8:55         ` Sergei Golubchik

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m3y7cvgfgw.fsf@codesourcery.com \
    --to=jimb@codesourcery.com \
    --cc=gdb@sourceware.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).