oldman@miso.rtp.dg.com (Dan Oldman) (02/20/91)
Submitted-by: oldman@miso.rtp.dg.com (Dan Oldman) The UNIX International Programming Languages Special Interest Group (UI PLSIG) is an organization of people interested in improving programming language tools on UNIX System V release 4 and beyond. Our current focus is on expanding and refining the specification of the debugger information format which is used by the portable tool set (e.g. C compiler, symbolic debugger) in AT&T's System V Release 4 and by some other third party software development tools. This new information format is called DWARF. In the future we intend to enhance and/or develop specifications for DWARF "bindings" for FORTRAN, C++, Modula, and other interesting languages, as well as specifications for the kernel and shared library manager (RTLD) interface for debugging and core files. After debugging support has advanced to a "maintenance activity" for us, we are interested in other areas but have no specific plans. The plsig operates via email and about 5-6 meetings per year held at facilities provided by volunteer members. Our next meeting is planned for late April at Motorola in Austin, Texas. People who can't physically attend are encouraged to participate via email. The mailing list is quite active and is the vehicle for distributing minutes from our meetings and proposed drafts of documents. To get on the mailing list, send your name, surface mail address, phone number, email address, and fax number if you have one to plsig-request@ui.org. Specific questions can also be addressed to the chairman (Dan Oldman) at "oldman@dg-rtp.dg.com". Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 130