> 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).
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:41:01PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > 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. Agreed; it's in the debug information as well as in ABI specs. There would similarly be no problem in dumping other types of declarations, or cross-reference data. We (or rather, the FSF) only have an issue when the dump becomes a complete representation of the program, suitable (after data conversion, maybe) for a foreign back end.
