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

Keith Seitz
2014-06-05T14:39:05Z

On 06/05/2014 07:14 AM, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 06:58 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Apart from the break-interp-exp crashes Markus has a fix for, and
>> a few PASS -> XFAIL that are marked as GCC bugs, I saw this
>> with both native and gdbserver:
>>
>> -PASS: gdb.cp/koenig.exp: p entry (c)
>> +FAIL: gdb.cp/koenig.exp: p entry (c)
>>
>> This is:
>>
>> Regression for gdb.cp/koenig.exp: p entry (c) [Re: [RFA] Fix
>> c++/16253 (tag/variable name collision)]
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-04/msg00374.html
>>
>> I don't know the current status of that one. Keith?
>
> I'm working on that one. It's your call, but I hesitate to block a
> release on this. The failure mode is induced by having glibc debuginfo,
> which exports a symbol of the same name ("entry"). The actual feature
> being tested still works, though.

I forgot to mention. Since we are reverting the patch for 16253, this
regression should go away, too.

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-04/msg00374.html

Keith