Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any objections to exporting structure layout from GCC, in a > format which can be parsed in a straightforward manner? Such a patch > could be used as a GPL circumvention device, but I'm not sure how > relevant this is in practice because GCC follows published ABIs, so a > clean-room reimplementation would be straightforward (IOW, there isn't > much to lose for us because our competetive edge is pretty minimal).
You can extract this information directly from the debugging output anyhow. I can't see how anybody would object to this on GPL circumvention grounds. I actually have a vague recollection that gcc used to implement something along these lines, but I couldn't find it in five minutes of searching. Ian
