Nick Sabalausky, el 22 de junio a las 22:35 me escribiste: > "BCS" <n...@anon.com> wrote in message > news:a6268ff1581a8cce05541b41...@news.digitalmars.com... > > Hello bearophile, > > > >> Robert Jacques: > >> > >>> The patent seems to be Borlands's: > >>> USPTO patent #5,628,016 Patent held by Borland on compiler support > >>> for SEH. > >>> From a Wine wiki page: > >>> http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport > >>> It does seem to expire on June 15, 2014, though and I assume > >>> DigitalMars has a license, so a LLVM fork is not unreasonable. > >>> > >> On Windows G++ supports exceptions. I have two questions: > >> > >> 1) Do you know how they do this? Do they have a license? If they have > >> a licence why don't LLVM people too have it? > >> > > > > The patent holder has refused licenses to all OSS projects. What GCC does > > is use a different system (something to do with tables). The patent is > > strictly for SEH. > > > > So can't LLVM just take the same approach? > > Also, accoroding to > http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/Exception/Exception.aspx (One of the links > on the page from Robert above), SEH is a service provided by Windows. So > wouldn't MS be the only one that would need a license? (I'm probably just > misunderstanding something here.) > > Plus, do we even know that this is what's holding up LLVM exceptions on > Windows?
I guess the best way to get answers is to ask in the LLVM mailing list, I think here you'll only find more answers =) -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lo último que hay que pensar es que se desalinea la memoria Hay que priorizar como causa la idiotez propia Ya lo tengo asumido -- Pablete, filósofo contemporáneo desconocido
