gdb-7.8 branching status update

Doug Evans xdje42@gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 08:22:00 GMT 2014


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 06:21 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
>>   - infrun regression on platforms using software single step (Eg AIX).
>>     See PR gdb/17000. A patch was sent this past weekend, and is
>>     awaiting review.
>
> I've been poking at this one all day long.  I noticed something while
> reviewing it, and then hit a stack of issues.  I'll reply very soon.
>
> I think the break-interp.exp crashes should be a blocker too:
>
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-05/msg00731.html
>
> Also, I've now noticed that running the testsuite against
> gdbserver has several regressions compared to a month or
> so ago.  :-/

I'm not sure this is a blocker, but I've started to notice gdb segvs
in corefile.exp.
vdso target sections are not removed when a new core is loaded, and
gdb is referencing memory from an already-freed bfd.
At any rate I'm going to file a pr tomorrow.



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