Doing a 0.181 release (arm64 bti/pac issues)

Mark Wielaard mark@klomp.org
Mon Sep 7 12:46:10 GMT 2020


Hi,

On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:03 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On irc Martin was asking about doing a new release. I do think it is
> time for 0.181. But I am struggling a bit with Fedora arm64 which has
> turned on BTI/PAC which caused some issues:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861423
> 
> I have patches for the dynamic tag parsing already posted to the list
> and working on the new property notes. But I don't fully understand
> why backtracing is broken right now.
> 
> I would like to resolve those issues before doing a release (hopefully
> later this or next week).

The arm64 bti/pac issues are resolved (although we can still not unwind
when PAC is active, but that needs newer hardware than anybody has at
the moment). I believe all patches are in git now. And I like to do a
0.181 release tomorrow unless there are still pending issues/patches.

Cheers,

Mark


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