gdb-7.8 branching status (2014-06-04)

Joel Brobecker
2014-06-04T17:18:46Z

Hello,

Quick update on where we are on branching the gdb-7.8 branch:

. break-interp.exp/corefile.exp GDB SEGV
I think Markus sent a patch, and Pedro mostly approved it
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00148.html

. PR 16253-induced performance regression
So far, I only heard from Doug who thinks the best option
at this point is to temporarily revert the offending patch.
It would be nice to hear from Keith as well, JIC.

. Build failure with Python 2.4
(caused by "Add xmethod support to the Python API")
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00169.html
Shouldn't be a problem for the release, since we build without
-Werror by default, but should not be hard to fix, and would be
better to have.

. I just noticed a regression with gdbserver on LynxOS.
The testing came back just in the nick of time to identify
the source of the regression:
commit 802e8e6d8465a0d05803a987ba1bb3237fb2fb70
[GDBserver] Make Zx/zx packet handling idempotent.
I will more into it right away.

. I also noticed what looks like some failures with gdbserver
on Windows, but I haven't had time to look into this.
I am hoping it's the same issue was on LynxOS.

I will create a PR(s) as soon as I know more about the issues I detected.

--
Joel