GDB 10 branching - 2020-08-07 update

[Joel Brobecker]

Hi everyone,

It's nice to see our TODO list continuing to shrink. Thanks to all
who helped with that!

I still have concerns about the following two entries due to lack
of activity:

  * [TomT/HannesD] <PR win32/25302>
    Mismatching fstat() function calls in gdb_bfd_open() and cache_bstat()
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25302

        This one triggers a crash, or some spurious warnings,
        so we can't really proceed with the release without some
        sort of fix.

        Hannes proposed, as a workaround, a hack involving
        undefining/redefining the fstat macro. The way it was proposed
        is not stricly portable as I understand it (it uses an extension),
        so we wouldn't be able to use it as is.  But I'm starting to
        warm to the idea of doing something like that on the branch,
        while we take the time we need to discuss the proper approach.

  * [ChristianB (reported by Eli)]
    Update gnulib to import fixes needed for mingw.org's MinGW

        The concern for this one is less, but there hasn't been
        any message being exchanged on this topic that I could see
        since Pedro's reply on the 18th.

Fixed Since the Previous Update:
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  * [TomT (reported by AndrewB)] <PR symtab/26270>
    Disassembler no longer showing demangled symbol names
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26270

  * [RainerO]
    Unify Solaris procfs and largefile handling
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169977.html
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-July/170961.html

Added Since the Last Update:
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  * [PedroA (reported by KevinB)] <PR gdb/26336>
    corefile.exp regression for unix/-m32 on x86_64 (failed assertion)

    A side-effect of the Multi-target support patch series.
    Pedro posted a patch, reviewed and approved yesterday by Tom.
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-August/171028.html

Other Ongoing Items:
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  * [TomT/HannesD] <PR win32/25302>
    Mismatching fstat() function calls in gdb_bfd_open() and cache_bstat()
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25302

    Latest discussion at:
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169670.html
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-July/170681.html

  * [ChristianB (reported by Eli)]
    Update gnulib to include fixes needed for mingw.org's MinGW
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169987.html
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-July/170059.html

    Waiting for answer to Pedro's comments sent 2020-07-16.

  * [TomT] <PR rust/26197>
    rust FAILs with rustc 1.36.0 and llvm 7
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26197

    Patch pushed:
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-July/170764.html

    Still some failures. TomT thinks that this is as far as we can
    reasonably push it, but would like to look at the remaining ones
    sent by TomDV to confirm.

Not Critical, but Requested:
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-- 
Joel