Re: GDB 10.1 release: branching early July?

[Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>]

On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 18:56 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Now that the GDB 9.2 release has been out for a few weeks, what
> do you think about turning our attention to starting the GDB 10
> release cycle?  I looked at the NEWS file, and there is a decent
> number of new features.
> 
> Based on that, what do you think of aiming for branching during
> the weekend of July 4th? That's 3 weeks from now. We would then
> be creating the first pre-release at the same time if possible,
> and then try to aim for a release 2-3 weeks afterwards.
> 
> Are there any changes that you think we should have in master
> before we create the branch?
I have a few things that IMO would be nice (or needed) in 10.1:

Default args for alias.
I have just sent the RFAv7 that implements
the prevention of an alias of an alias that has default args,
as suggested by Simon:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169467.html

There are 2 things still to look at for the 'exec-file-mismatch':

* Below fixes a regression due to using build-id in exec-file-mismatch:
  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169467.html

* an opened PR for which some feedback is needed
   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25475
  Note that possibly fixing this might change the user visible CLI.

Thanks
Philippe

NB: I also have an RFC Improve handling of breakpoints with multiple locations.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168921.html
but no feedback received yet, so better for GDB 11.


> 
> This is what is current in the 10.1 list on Bugzilla:
> 
>   * [unassigned]
>     <PR gdb/25412> thread_info with duplicate ptid added to inferior thread list
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25412
> 
>     Reported by Simon, who started investigating a bit.
>     Simon says the issue appeared after the "multi-target" patch
>     series went in (5b6d1e4fa by Pedro).
> 
>     Simon - is that still an issue?
> 
>   * [RainerO]
>     <PR gdb/25939> [10 regression] run fails with ICE on Solaris
> 
>     Not sure if this is still an issue or not. Rainer did push some
>     patches to master back in May. To be confirmed.
> 
> I also know of the following issue which I think should get fixed
> before we branch:
> 
>   * [AndrewB/TomT]
>     QEMU / GDB compatibility on RISCV64 ELF (failure to fetch some registers)
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169393.html
> 
> Anything else you think we should include?
> 
> Thank you!