GDB 6.2 release schedule?
Andrew Cagney
cagney@gnu.org
Fri Jun 18 15:33:00 GMT 2004
> I think July 1 is too soon to cut the branch.
>
> native i686-pc-linux-gnu has two regressions from gdb 6.1 to gdb HEAD.
>
> gdb/1650 manythreads.exp
> gdb/1677 [regression] selftest.exp, crash in lookup_symtab
>
> 1677 is probably easy to fix. 1650 looks significantly deeper.
> The problem with 1650 is that gdb HEAD randomly gets internal errors,
> but gdb 6.1 does not, on the same test script.
These worry me (btw, no one got around to moving selftest.exp to
testsuite/gdb.gdb/ :-).
> native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 has regressions in 17 test scripts.
> I estimate there's about 1 real regression bug per 4-5 test scripts,
> so there are about 4-5 real regression bugs to hunt down and fix
> (or document).
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-testers/2004-q2/msg00160.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-testers/2004-q2/msg00157.html
But these don't. Presumably being ISA specific its possible to have
fixes easily pulled into the branch.
There's also a balancing act here. GDB as a whole should continue to
improve. While there are the above regressioins, there are also
dramatic improvements on other ISAs such as i386 and PPC/PPC64.
enjoy,
Andrew
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