Potential patent issues

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 18.01.2011 23:52, schrieb BlazingWhitester:
> I spotted some patents that can theaten current DMD implementation.
> Wanted to clarify things.
>
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6185728.pdf - this patent describes method
> pointers implementation (delegates)

This is trivial, what idiot grants these kind of patents?
And were there really no delegates before Jan. 31 1996 when this was filed?

> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5628016.pdf - describes compiler support for
> SEH, also this is the reason GNU toolchain does not support SEH right now
>
> Both patents were owned by Borland, right now, I believe Microsoft owns them.
>
> Walter, could you give some comments about this? Does dmd violate anything?
>