quick status on gdb-7.2.1 & gdb-7.3? (Mar 07)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since we last really talked about the release,
can we have a quick status on the various items we're waiting for?
Right now, we're about 3 weeks late.

  - The big blockers for the release are (regressions) [Keith, Jan]:
       c++/11734
       c++/12273
    It sounded like Keith and Jan are making progress, and getting
    closer to a solution that doesn't introduces other regressions.
    How far do we think we are?

For GDB 7.3, we have, in addition to the above:

  - ifunc branch (might be close to being merge-ready) [Jan]

  - exposing SystemTap static probe points [Sergio, Tom]

  - tracepoint printf support [Hui] (awaiting review)

  - <unavailable> values support (part 3) [Pedro]
     http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-02/msg00581.html
     http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-02/msg00611.html
    It's been waiting for comments a while, now, so should be
    ready to commit soon?

My understanding is that we don't really need to wait for the
ifunc and SystemTap stuff if it's going to delay the release.
Only a nice to have.

I don't think that Hui's tracepoint printf patch is a critical
patch either, but it's been waiting for review for a while, now,
and it'd be nice to at least review it before we branch. Anyone,
competent in this area, please?

So, all in all, I think we're just blocked by the C++ regressions.
As soon as they are resolved, we can start thinking about branching.

-- 
Joel