gdb-7.8 branching status update

[Doug Evans]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 09:22 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> That's sounds just like the break-interp.exp crashes mentioned above.
> Markus followed up already (silly archives don't cross the month
> boundary), but I haven't managed to reply yet, still busy with
> the software step stuff.

It is indeed.