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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: gdbserver, aarch64: Zero out regs in aarch64_linux_set_debug_regs
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131125130250.GE3114@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANu=DmiprxHcpNHVNqZt4BYUH_YoswKYgh0Q=EQe4xf=x4TLRA@mail.gmail.com>

> > We're about to create a 7.6.2 release. To help me sent release
> > announcements, I need an entry in the wiki page we created for
> > that release branch. For 7.6.2, that's:
> >
> >     https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.6_Release
> >
> > Can you please add an entry that follows the format used in
> > the entries added for the 7.6.1 release?
> 
> Sure, no problem.

Thanks!

> > I tried doing that myself, but got lost a little. AFAICT, you're
> > applying the same patch as one that was applied on the GDB side.
> > I traced the problem description back to a patch first posted in
> > July, but: 1. Does your patch fix the same problem/symptoms?
> 
> It fixes the same issue in gdbserver that was fixed in gdb.
> 
> >            2. The gdb-side patch in not part of the gdb_7_6-branch;
> >               is that what we want?
> 
> Not really! I believed that the gdb patch had been committed to the
> stable branch but later discovered that it hadn't. As the stable
> branch appeared to be dormant I didn't follow up on it. Ideally both
> patches should be applied and if we are going to do another release
> I'm happy to cherry pick it across.

Let's do that, then. I think it'll make better sense for the user,
and it'll also be easier to describe the extent of the problem being
fixed.

Thanks again!
-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-25 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25 13:03 Joel Brobecker
2013-11-25 13:07 ` Will Newton
2013-11-25 13:40   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2013-11-25 15:24     ` Will Newton
2013-11-25 15:46       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-25 15:55         ` Will Newton
2013-11-26  4:56           ` Joel Brobecker

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