Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-04 update

Joel Brobecker
2017-12-04T17:02:11Z

> One thing that I was thinking it'd be nice to see about getting
> into 8.1 was the DWARF5 index stuff (standard replacement for
> .gdb_index):
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-05/msg00577.html
>
> Not sure about making that the default (seems risky), but it
> might be nice to provide the option so that users/distros can
> start experimenting (and so that Fedora/RHEL doesn't end up
> having to backport yet another large series... :-P) . I tried
> to review that in the past but stumbled on choices I didn't quite
> understand, and there are also some open questions, but I was
> planning on taking another look. I can't really promise I/we can
> get it done this week, so not sure about blocking the branching
> because of it.

Indeed, it would be nice, and we can wait a bit to see if we manage
to get it in. But looking at the size of the patch, unless you think
it's almost ready and it's only a matter of a few fixes here and
there, it seems like this might be a bit risky...

Let's give ourselves this week, and see where we get. In the meantime,
I've added this to the "maybe" section, before 18.1 branching.

--
Joel