Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development
I'm writing an article today following Dimitri O. Paun's talk at the Wine Developer conference in Stuttgart. He said that Wine development is restricted due to a Borland software patent, which prevents an important feature from being added to GCC. The Borland patent is a patent for standard exception handling http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL &p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,628,016.WKU.&OS=PN/5,628, 016&RS=PN/5,628,016 The FFII has written an article on this: http://wiki.ffii.org/WineConf050501En I am keen to find out more about this issue. Does anyone know about this issue? I can see there were discussions on this issue in 2003 (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-10/msg00840.html). What has happened since on this issue? Thanks for your help. Regards, Ingrid Ingrid Marson Reporter ZDNet UK www.zdnet.co.uk T: +44 (0)20 7903 6835
RE: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development
Is there any patch within GCC that supports SEH, or is this external patch the only one? Thanks Ingrid -Original Message- From: Steven Bosscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2005 13:20 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Ingrid Marson Subject: Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development On Wednesday 11 May 2005 13:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > The Borland patent is a patent for standard exception handling > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL > > &p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,628,016.WKU.&OS=PN/5,628, > > 016&RS=PN/5,628,016 > > http://snipurl.com/et1w And FWIW, patches exist outside the FSF tree to support SEH, see e.g. http://reactos.csh-consult.dk/index.php?page=gccseh Gr. Steven
