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

Simon Marchi
2020-09-19T01:37:22Z

On 2020-09-18 7:46 p.m., Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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

Simon