[fpc-devel] Const optimization is a serious bug

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 00:07:56 CEST 2011


On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> Flávio Etrusco schrieb:
>
>> Isn't this unfortunately encumbered by patents?
>> http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/05/05/12/1947213/Winelib-Hobbled-by-Exception-Handling-Patent
>
> Software patents should not be a problem outside the USA. A nice try, but
> unimportant for non-resident free software writers and distributors.
>
> DoDi
>

I know that, I just wanted to raise the issue, since nobody raised it
and I don't/didn't whether all FPC developers lived outside US.
I'm brazilian (and live in Brazil) and this is - for now... - not an
issue here either.

-Flávio



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