Re: Remaining 7.5 regressions (Re: [ARM, commit, RFA 7.5] Fix HW breakpoints on unaligned addresses)

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>]

Some updates:

> - Failures in various core file tests on PowerPC (needs investigation)

This is now fixed here:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00070.html

> - Failures in watchpoint.exp on SPU (needs investigation)

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00071.html

> - Failures in gdb.dwarf2/dw2-icc-opaque.exp on SPU and s390 (likewise)

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00072.html

> - Testcase harness failures when running a multi-lib configuration:
>    ERROR: tcl error sourcing ../../../gdb-7_5/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/inferior-died.exp.
>    ERROR: can't set "seen": variable is array
>    ERROR: tcl error sourcing /home/uweigand/fsf/gdb-head/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/linux-dp.exp.
>    ERROR: can't array set "seen": variable isn't array
>   (Invalid re-use of a variable name?)

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00073.html

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Would you guys mind keeping the list up to date on the 7.5 release
> wiki page? This gives everyone an easy location for finding out what
> still needs to be fixed before we can release...
> 
>     http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.5_Release

I'll update the list with those issues that are still failing.

However, most of them seem to be things that actually never worked,
it's just that we didn't have tests to show it (e.g. hardware
watchpoints across forks).  Those don't look like release
blockers to me ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com