Re: GDB 10.1 release: branching early July?

Philippe Waroquiers
2020-06-14T16:57:31Z

I have corrected the link for the build-id exec-file-mismatch ...
Philippe

On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 18:53 +0200, Philippe Waroquiers via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 18:56 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Now that the GDB 9.2 release has been out for a few weeks, what
> > do you think about turning our attention to starting the GDB 10
> > release cycle? I looked at the NEWS file, and there is a decent
> > number of new features.
> >
> > Based on that, what do you think of aiming for branching during
> > the weekend of July 4th? That's 3 weeks from now. We would then
> > be creating the first pre-release at the same time if possible,
> > and then try to aim for a release 2-3 weeks afterwards.
> >
> > Are there any changes that you think we should have in master
> > before we create the branch?
> I have a few things that IMO would be nice (or needed) in 10.1:
>
> Default args for alias.
> I have just sent the RFAv7 that implements
> the prevention of an alias of an alias that has default args,
> as suggested by Simon:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169467.html
>
> There are 2 things still to look at for the 'exec-file-mismatch':
>
> * Below fixes a regression due to using build-id in exec-file-mismatch:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169467.html

This is the correct link:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169287.html

>
> * an opened PR for which some feedback is needed
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25475
> Note that possibly fixing this might change the user visible CLI.
>
> Thanks
> Philippe
>
> NB: I also have an RFC Improve handling of breakpoints with multiple locations.
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168921.html
> but no feedback received yet, so better for GDB 11.
>
>
> > This is what is current in the 10.1 list on Bugzilla:
> >
> > * [unassigned]
> > <PR gdb/25412> thread_info with duplicate ptid added to inferior thread list
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25412
> >
> > Reported by Simon, who started investigating a bit.
> > Simon says the issue appeared after the "multi-target" patch
> > series went in (5b6d1e4fa by Pedro).
> >
> > Simon - is that still an issue?
> >
> > * [RainerO]
> > <PR gdb/25939> [10 regression] run fails with ICE on Solaris
> >
> > Not sure if this is still an issue or not. Rainer did push some
> > patches to master back in May. To be confirmed.
> >
> > I also know of the following issue which I think should get fixed
> > before we branch:
> >
> > * [AndrewB/TomT]
> > QEMU / GDB compatibility on RISCV64 ELF (failure to fetch some registers)
> > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169393.html
> >
> > Anything else you think we should include?
> >
> > Thank you!