Re: creating the gdb-7.4 branch tomorrow (?)

Stan Shebs
2011-12-07T23:36:06Z

On 12/7/11 1:53 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Stan, Yao,
>
>> I found a issue http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00177.html
>> And I think it is really affect tracepoint function(Second tstart will
>> reproduce it).
> [assuming that we can't get this problem fixed today]
>
> You seem to be the ones having made the most modifications to
> tracepoint.c. Can you help us evaluate whether the fix is likely
> to be considered "risky"? If you think the fix is going to be relatively
> simple, then we can go ahead with the branch, and fix the problem on
> the branch. If not, then we have to wait before we branch, and that
> means opening the door for other problems to creep in.
>

There is something to fix here, and I'm still not clear on the right
solution, but it's safe to say that it will be a small and localized
fix, so there's no reason to hold off branching because of this.

Stan