From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7188 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2007 02:02:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 7176 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Nov 2007 02:02:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:02:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 22411 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2007 02:02:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 19 Nov 2007 02:02:24 -0000 To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: DUEL support References: <20071117201326.GA25388@janus.mylan> From: Jim Blandy Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20071117201326.GA25388@janus.mylan> (Sergei Golubchik's message of "Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:13:26 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 Sergei Golubchik 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.