Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10)

Antoine Tremblay
2017-04-11T19:00:44Z

Joel Brobecker writes:

> Hello,
>
> We're now about 4 weeks after our tentative branching date, and
> I am concerned that if we continue to wait for some of the pending
> issues to be resolved, we'll have new issues appearing on master
> that'll might delay the branching further. So I'd like to propose
> we branch in the next couple of days, and then backport fixes,
> so as to stabilize the branch.
>
> We have two 8.0 pending PRs:
>
> * server/21169 GDBServer on ARM can crash the inferior while single stepping
>
> Antoine indicated that he's working on it, and his expected
> completion date isn't all that far away. Still on track for
> that, Antoine?

Yes I just posted a patch with a partial fix for that. I'm afraid the
full fix will have to wait however.