Re: GDB 10.1 release -- 2020-09-18 Update

Joel Brobecker
2020-09-19T19:42:18Z

> > A quick update on the release status since the 10.0.90 pre-release
> > was published last Saturday...
> >
> > So far, we don't have anything really worrisome that could significantly
> > delay the release. I'll try to find some time to test the gnulib patches
> > that Eli pointed out next week.
>
> Huh, the patch to skip the endbr32 instruction in prologues kind of fell
> through the cracks until today. It was just merged to master. Should
> we consider it for the release branch? If you don't have it and your
> compiler inserts these instructions, it kind of screws up the debugging
> experience, since the function prologues are never properly skipped. In
> my experience, this results in GDB showing wrong argument values when
> reaching a function breakpoint, for example.
>
> The patch in question is:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=14f9473ca225290680c8b21240cdca49f8d3b332

Sure. This patch does look safe to backport, so OK with me.

Thanks for pointing this patch out for the release, Simon.

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Joel