Re: GDB 8.3 release update (2019-03-25)

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> There is a regression that affects the release branch and causes some
> control characters to be printed infinitely when listing source files
> (see <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-03/msg00611.html>).
> This one isn't fixed.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. This is very annoying.
Does it happen all the time, or only under specific circumstances?
In other words, I'm wondering if we have some kind of workaround.

Tom - would you be OK to put this on your list to look at, sometime?

> There is a testsuite issue that was fixed in
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-03/msg00142.html>
> (gdb/testsuite: Prepare for DejaGnu 1.6.2), but I haven't seen the
> corresponding commit in gdb-8.3-branch.  The commit that causes the
> issue is in the branch.  I posted a message in that thread asking if it
> makes sense to include it in the release branch.

This ones looks pretty straightforward to me, and I will send Andrew
my vote.

> There is another testsuite issue that was fixed, but the fix doesn't seem
> to be in the release branch yet
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-03/msg00613.html>.

This one, I think is OK, but it isn't as clear. It's not clear also
how critical it is for gdb-8.3. Pedro?

-- 
Joel