Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-18 update

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

On 2017-12-18 04:28, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Some good progress last week (well done, Sergio, and thanks to those
> who helped review the patch!). However, we discovered a regression in
> Ada where I think, given the nature of the changes we are considering,
> might warrant us delaying the branch:
>
>     [JoelB/PedroA] regresssion(internal-error) printing subprogram 
> argument
>     https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00298.html
>
> Given that people are starting to go on holiday anyways, I don't think
> there is much benefit in branching now, unless people want to start
> pushing some changes they think might be better off post branch (I
> have a patch series that adds support for fixed point types, for
> instance), or if we would like to start stabilizing the branch now.
> Personally, I suggest we postpone until next year.

I hoped for the branch to be created soon, since my pile of patches that 
I intend to post/push post-branching is growing :).  But there's no 
rush, they can wait for next year. And there's no real point in posting 
patches just before the holidays, I don't really expect people to review 
patches while they are on vacation.

> Opinions?
>
> Aside from the above, we have the following issues known to be blocking
> for release (but not branching():
>
>   * [Pedro] gdb/22556
>     Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with 
> --target_board=native-gdbserver

I fixed this one (I introduced the bug), I will close the PR.

>   * [Pedro] gdb/22583
>     gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp regressions on software
> single-step targets
>
>   * [Maciej] remote/22597
>     Empty `qsThreadInfo' reply handling regression causing inability to 
> execute
>
>     I'm trying to understand whether this is specific to mips or more
>     general. And whether this only affects GDB when debugging with 
> older
>     stubs or whether it affects us more generally.
>
>   * [TomT] no PR yet
>     Regression on 32-bit: gdb.guile/scm-ports.exp [Re: [RFA 1/2] Fix 
> two regress
> ions in scalar printing
>     https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00215.html
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thank you,

Thanks,

Simon