Re: Reusing GCC code in GDB

> I’m looking at a GDB issue where GDB is not consistent with GCC*, and
>  requires (more or less) the rewrite of a self-contained section of
>  code in the GDB aarch64 backend.
>
> Given GCC already has the correct behaviour, I’m considering copying
> the block of GCC code (all from gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c) into GDB
> (gdb/aarch64-tdep.c) and replacing the GCC structures with the
> equivalent GDB ones. Unless the gdb code requires it, I’m NOT planning
> on changing the function names, code comments or code flow logic.
>
> Given that GDB and GCC are both FSF projects, I was hoping that this
> would be ok. However, I wanted to check first before I went ahead. 

My perspective is that this should be OK, because GCC requires
contributions to be assigned to the FSF, and the code is GPLv3.
It is similar, I think, with the libiberty code being shared
between GCC and binutils-gdb.


-- 
Joel