[cfe-dev] [RFC] Starting support for SAL

[Aaron Ballman]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Anna Zaks <ganna at apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> I did a brief search for patents on "source code annotation language" and
> came up with this one, which seems to be patenting SAL annotations. (In
> particular, they talk about pre and post, writableTo, checkReturn… )
> http://www.google.com/patents/about/7584458_Source_code_annotation_language.html?id=-2jKAAAAEBAJ
> Looks like this patch might infringe on the patent and if so it should not
> be committed; see the LLVM developer policy:
> http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#clp
> Thanks for the initiative, it would be a great addition!

Well phooey!  ;-)  Thanks for finding that patent though, I'll suspend
working on this patch and focus elsewhere.

Thanks!

~Aaron