GDB 9.1 Release: Creating the branch on *WED* Dec 11th!

Joel Brobecker
2019-12-08T01:05:41Z

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time coming, and I think we're at a point where
we can branch Real Soon Now.

At this point, I have removed the section "if reviewed in time".
We do have a couple of patches identified as needed, but one is
about to be pushed, while the other has comments which don't seem
super hard to address -- and the patch itself looks sufficiently
small that it can be backported post branch creation.

Therefore, unless there are issues that should delay the creation
of the branch (please let us know!), I propose creating that branch on:

Wednesday Dec 11th, sometime in the evening of Western Europe

Still Pending:
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- [TomT/PedroA] Handle pending stops from the Windows kernel
Gerrit: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/414

Add pending stop support to gdbserver's Windows port
Gerrit: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/432

The first patch has been approved, and thus should get pushed
fairly quickly.

The second has been reviewed, and changes have been requested.
Without looking too much into details, the comments don't seem
too hard to address.

Completed since the last update (2019-11-24):
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- [Tom DV] Prefer var def over decl
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00161.html
Gerrit: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/29

- [Christian B] The threaded symbol loading that tromey Christian have been working on
Gerrit: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/q/topic:%22minsyms-threads%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)

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Joel