RE: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-12 Thread Casper Hornstrup
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Bosscher > Sent: 11. maj 2005 14:20 > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Ingrid Marson > Subject: Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development >

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Florian Weimer wrote: * Ranjit Mathew: Without looking at the patent, I would hazard the guess that it is about Win32 Structured Exception Handling (SEH): http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/exception/exception.aspx (The linked-to mail from the GCC mailing list seems to confirm this.) Indeed. Expli

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Koning: >> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Florian> Indeed. Explicitly pushing an exception frame pointer on > Florian> the main stack is covered by the patent. > > Oh, like VMS has done since V1.0, in 1978? I fail to see the inventive step in that patent

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Koning
> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Florian> Indeed. Explicitly pushing an exception frame pointer on Florian> the main stack is covered by the patent. Oh, like VMS has done since V1.0, in 1978? paul

RE: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Ingrid Marson
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

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ranjit Mathew: > Without looking at the patent, I would hazard the guess > that it is about Win32 Structured Exception Handling (SEH): > > http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/exception/exception.aspx > > (The linked-to mail from the GCC mailing list seems to > confirm this.) Indeed. Explicitly

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Ranjit Mathew
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Ingrid Marson: > > >>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 > > > At leas

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Steven Bosscher
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 >

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ingrid Marson: > 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 At least on Linux, GCC implements a differe

Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

2005-05-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
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 Paolo