DMD Backend Long-term

[Leandro Lucarella]

Nick Sabalausky, el 22 de junio a las 22:35 me escribiste:
> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message 
> news:a6268ff1581a8cce05541b41e04 at 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 =)

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