The GDB 6.7 release branch will be created soon. This page has a partial list of issues which should be addressed before the release.
- None left!
Done:
- Annotation level 3 was broken by some readline changes.
Patch proposed: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00436.html Committed 2007-07-01.
- configure check issue (CFLAGS was using objdir):
- Checked in HEAD on 2007-06-19
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00367.html
- Checked in HEAD on 2007-06-19
- "maint print registers" crash
- Patch checked in HEAD on 2007-06-20:
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00403.html
- Patch checked in HEAD on 2007-06-20:
- gdbint.texinfo update correspoinding to gdbarch recent cleanup:
- Patch posted on 2007-06-26:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00463.html Committed 2007-07-03.
- Patch posted on 2007-06-26:
- Do not read from the executable if ptrace fails
- Patch posted on 2007-06-24:
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00442.html Committed 2007-07-01.
- Patch posted on 2007-06-24:
- Problem setting breakpoint in dynamic loader
- Patch submitted on 2007-06-20, should be checked in soon.
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00389.html Committed 2007-07-03.
- Patch submitted on 2007-06-20, should be checked in soon.
- Overflow in symfile.c/print_transfer_performance
- Patch checked in on 2007-07-03 15:32.
- Parse /proc/.../stat values as long rather than int
- Patch posted on 2007-06-23, committed 2007-07-03:
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-06/msg00433.html
- Patch posted on 2007-06-23, committed 2007-07-03:
- Debugging threaded program on OpenBSD is broken
See http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-07/msg00094.html. Fixed 2007-07-06.
- Dedication of the manual to Fred Fish.
- Moving to GPLv3.
- Printing of signed and unsigned characters and strings. This was a change from GDB 6.6 and there were some objections;
- they should be resolved before we release. Patch committed 2007-09-04.