Installation of unwind header

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Mon Feb 10 17:51:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:01:06PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> to support programs which also need to unwind stack frames we would like
> to install gcc/gcc/unwind.h.  Possibly under a different name, and maybe
> slightly changed.  This would also need a similar license exception
> clause, like e.g. the <stdbool.h> header.  Would that be feasible?

We'd have to get FSF permission for a relaxed license, and it might take
months to negotiate it, as RMS really hates doing it (though he's been
persuaded in the past).

He might be persuadable if we can show that competing compilers support
such things. 



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