GDB 7.4 release status (2012-01-03)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello,

I had initially hoped to release at the start of the year, but
I think that it was a little too optimistic...

We have currently 3 items on the blocking list:

  * Fix zero registers core files w/gcc-4.7 [Jan, waiting for approval by H.J.]
        http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-12/msg00298.html 
  * Minimal symbol causing multiple-location breakpoints + regression fix [Joel]
    (waiting for possible feedback from Tom)
        http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00773.html
        http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00862.html
  * Stand-alone Cell debugger broken by ambiguous-linespec patch [Ulrich]
        http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-01/msg00055.html

We have patches for all three of them, so it will hopefully not be
too long until the issues are resolved.

However, I think that the number of patches that are potentially
disrusptive on all platforms is sufficiently high that I am thinking
of making another pre-release, and then wait another couple of weeks
before releasing... I'm thinking in particular of the patches we wrote
on top of the ambiguous-linespec series. Mine in particular looked
simple enough, but turned out to be too naive and clearly negatively
impacted ppc64.

Thoughts?

-- 
Joel