GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Pedro Alves]

On 12/11/2017 01:56 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Aside from that, we have a number of entries which have been identified
> as blocking for 8.1 (so branching would be OK, but we would wand to
> fix them before we make the official release):
> 
>   * [Pedro] gdb/22556
>     Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with --target_board=native-gdbserver

Note: if someone could help with this one, I'd appreciate it.
Just doing a git bisect to find what caused this would help.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves