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Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?
- From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:06:59 +0000
- Subject: Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?
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Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
> Are there any changes that would be worth waiting for before we branch
> 8.1? If not, I plan on creating the branch next Monday (Nov 27th).
Hi Joel,
Arm still has pending patch series about new ARMv8.3-A Pointer
Authentication feature support in GDB. They were posted in Aug, and
reviewed,
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00174.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00175.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00171.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00172.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00173.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-08/msg00176.html
The GDB support needs the new regset provided by Linux kernel, so
these GDB patches can't go in until the kernel patches are merged.
I think kernel patches will be merged in several (5?) weeks, is it OK to
get these GDB patches into 8.1 release (mainline first and backport to
8.1 branch)? To be clear, I don't expect GDB 8.1 release should be
delayed in case that kernel patches merge won't happen in several weeks.
The reason I ask this is that I want to make sure we are OK to merge
such new feature support to release branch.
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Yao (齐尧)