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

Simon Marchi
2020-09-19T23:58:46Z

On 2020-09-19 3:42 p.m., Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> 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.

Done, thanks.

Simon