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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc-dis: Remove redundant NULL check
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To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Am 20.09.2012 19:03, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Am 05.09.2012 19:45, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>> Am 05.09.2012 19:15, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>>>
>>> AFAIK, binutils moved to GPL 3. Therefore I don't expect that
>>> QEMU will update to upstream in the next years.
>>>
>>> We'll have to maintain the code which we have.
>>>
>>> Try "git log *-dis.c" or "gitk *-dis.c": there are already lots
>>> of more trivial changes which got applied to the disassembler files.
>>>
>>> =3D> The patch should be applied.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stefan
>>
>> Here is some additional information:
>>
>> binutils switched from GPL 2 to GPL 3 with version 2.18:
>>
>> Changes in 2.18:
>>
>> * The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU
>> General
>>   Public License.
>>
>>
>> sparc-dis.c is already based on 2.17, so we won't get anything newer.
>> Even the latest version still uses the redundant NULL check, so I
>> can send my patch to the binutils maintainers, too.

So did you? And did they accept it?

Regards,
Andreas

> Ping? If nobody objects, I suggest to apply the patch via qemu-trivial.
>=20
> Regards
>=20
> Stefan W.

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