Re: time to start thinking about GDB 7.3 (as well!)

Tom Tromey
2011-02-14T19:31:54Z

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> According to the tentative calendar, it's also time to start
Joel> thinking about the GDB 7.3 release process. Normally, we were
Joel> planning on branching next week.

Joel> We should also discuss features that we think would be worthwhile
Joel> waiting for. Some Python work being finished, for instance, which
Joel> might nicely complements some of the new enhancements we got?
Joel> Tracepoints? gdbserver work? Etc.

I think Phil is planning to resubmit his Python breakpoint changes this
week.

Jan said on irc that the ifunc branch might be close to merge-ready.
This is important because, without it, `strcmp' is not usable (on
systems with a glibc that uses ifunc) in a breakpoint condition --
pretty basic stuff.

Sergio and I have been working on exposing SystemTap static probe points
to gdb. We are reasonably close to finishing this; the basic
functionality is fine, and this week Sergio is working on the probe
arguments while I work on tests. So, assuming others are amenable to
this idea, we would like this to be in 7.3. I am not sure whether all
the details will be acceptable in the right timeframe; I could post the
"bad" parts if people want to take a look now.

For 7.2.1, I think Jan and Keith have been discussing the C++ regressions.
I'm not sure what they have decided, I'm a little behind on that again.

Tom