Re: GDB 7.7 branching on Monday?

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> Now, I am sorry for not having updated the wiki!  I would really like to
> see the SystemTap SDT probe support for AArch64 in.  It is a simple
> patch, has been pre-reviewed before, but I had to do other improvements
> on the general SDT API before submitting it again.

No, thank you for letting me know. This answer is the reason why
it's important for me to send these "heads up" messages.

> The new API has been approved in:
> 
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00660.html>
> 
> I was waiting for Mark Kettenis' comments on it, but I decided to check
> the patch in today and proceed with the AArch64 submission.
> 
> Now, what do you want me to do?  Maybe update the wiki?  I hope that the
> AArch64 patch will be approved very quickly, so maybe I'll even be able
> to push it this weekend.

I will venture a guess that you'll be able to get this one push
by Monday, but even if you don't, I think it'll be sufficiently
contained that we can backport it to the branch.

In the meantime, let's add the patch to the wiki, if only for
posterity :).

-- 
Joel