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[sdcc-devel] [ sdcc-Feature Requests-1896681 ] Newer versions of ASxxxx and ASlink
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2008-02-19 20:42:17
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Feature Requests item #1896681, was opened at 2008-02-19 07:31 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by maartenbrock You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350599&aid=1896681&group_id=599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Ernst (estippl) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Newer versions of ASxxxx and ASlink Initial Comment: Hi! I was wondering recently why these (relarively) old versions of asxxxx and aslink are part of SDCC and (somewhere) found a bit of information that it is due to licensing issues: http://sdcc.wiki.sourceforge.net/SDCC+AS+and+LINK+history So I contacted the Author of asxxxx Alan Baldwin and had the following email exchange: (read from bottom up) ----------------------------------------- Hello Alan! Thanks for your answer. If you don't mind, I will bring it to the SDCC developers attention and ask them if they would like to discuss options with you. My question regarding licensing was certainly not meant to include the whole ASXXXX package, rather the assemblers which are used as backends for the SDCC compiler plus ASLINK and utils(if needed). Sandeep Dutta is still listed as one of the project admins on SDCC, but I do not know if he is still actively involved. Regards Ernst -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: BALDWIN, ALAN [mailto:] Gesendet: Montag, 18. Februar 2008 22:50 An: Ernst Stippl Betreff: RE: License terms for ASxxxx and ASlink Ernst, I would gladly give permission to merge portions of ASxxxx V4.xx into the SDCC project. I probably could be persuaded to allow the merged parts to be licensed under the GNU license. At this time however I have not determine the future licensing terms for the full ASxxxx Assembler package. I don't know if Sandeep Dutta is actively involved in the SDCC project (he originally asked to use the ASxxxx and ASlink package) or if someone else would like to discuss the options. Since I have never been an active participant in the SDCC project I don't have any contacts with the SDCC group. Regards, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Ernst Stippl [mailto:] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:50 PM To: ba...@sh... Subject: License terms for ASxxxx and ASlink Hi! I am a user of the SDCC compiler, which uses versions of asxxxx and aslink to generate machine code for various targets. See: http://sdcc.wiki.sourceforge.net/SDCC+AS+and+LINK+history I just read this web page and found out about the change in license terms which occurred between the v 1.70 and the V4.00 which "... makes impossible to merge ASXXXX version V 4.00 or higher with the SDCC version ...." As stated on this web page, you have not been contacted (at least this is written there) if you would allow SDCC to use asxxxx and aslink version 4.xx. Why do I write to about this? I am currently trying to port SW from GCC/AVR to SDCC/Z180 (and maybe the Rabbit CPU later). I found out that the NoICE debugger, which seems to me as a valuable tool for such undertaking, requires ".noi" files for symbolic debugging. ".noi" files can be created from ".cdb" files. Unfortunately, the current V1.70 based version of the sdcc's link-z80 seems not to support ".cdb" files, but the V4.xx version does. So: Is there any chance you may allow V4.xx to be used as part of sdcc? You may have already detected from my writing that I am not an native English speaking person, and I hope that contacting you and asking this question does not offend you or anybody else. This is by no means my intention. Having used asxxxx and aslink for some time, let me also say "thanks" for these valuable tools! My interest is in embedded systems and I try to contribute a bit to the "Ethernut" community, that's also where my interest in sdcc comes from. Thanks & Regards Ernst -------------------------------------- Are you interested in getting in contact with Alan to figure out if and how newer versions of asxxxx can become part of the sdcc package? regards ernst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Maarten Brock (maartenbrock) Date: 2008-02-19 21:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=888171 Originator: NO This is indeed very good news. Just for the record, this developer mailing list thread is related: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=7aab3fde3b18fe63eb1f340d987fa499%40mac.com In it Mark Swayne states he has tried to contact Alan Baldwin, but to no avail. Maarten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Borut Ražem (borutr) Date: 2008-02-19 20:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=568035 Originator: NO Ernst, this is really a good news! I'll get in contact with Alan and we will see if/how we can re-merge the asxxxx branches. Thanks for the good job, Borut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Patryk (patryks) Date: 2008-02-19 11:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1788180 Originator: NO Some discussion was also here: http://www.cygnal.org/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000058.html It seems that SDCC team tried to contact Alan Baldwin before, but without success. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350599&aid=1896681&group_id=599 |