• GDB_7.5_Release

This page identifies some issues which should be addressed before the 7.5 release as well as some cleanup tasks that should be completed before then.

Tentative branch date: June 04, 2012.

[NAME] at the beginning of each item is the name of a point of contact who will help trying to get the issue fixed faster.

Todo:

Todo (Optional?):

Cleanup:

Done:

• [Joel] Symbol lookup regression

  • http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-05/msg01102.html

• [fix by Pedro] workaround stale frame_info * (PR 13866)

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-04/msg00058.html

• [Jan] Fix gdb.cp/gdb2495.exp regression with gcc-4.7

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00417.html

    http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00419.html

• [dje] Performance issue with .gdb_index and large numbers of shared libs.

  • http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14125

• [Jan] [mingw] Fix "%lld" compilation error

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00512.html

• [Jan] auto-load safe-path: Permit shell wildcards

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00700.html

• [Jan] -iex and -ix: Execute them _after_ gdbinits

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00549.html

• [hj] x32 support

  • http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14099

• [Tom] Regression: Invalid data type for function to be called.

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-07/msg00043.html

• [Tom] Still regressing, now: Too few arguments in function call

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-07/msg00106.html

• [dje+Jan] Fix inconsistency in blockvector addrmap vs non-addrmap handling

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-06/msg00109.html

• [dje] Noticeable performance degradation with large C++ apps.
  • There is a work-around of compiling with -fno-debug-type-sections, so optional?

    http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14002

• [Fix by Yao+Pedro] 7.4->7.5 Regression gdb.base/pending.exp with gdbserver [Re: [PATCH] Dynamic printf for a target agent]

  • http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-07/msg00287.html

• [Jan] 7.4 -> 7.5 Regression with infcalls on valgrind

  • http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-07/msg00436.html