From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122365 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2017 15:17:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 122356 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2017 15:17:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_1,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=stumbled X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:17:01 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABF0180F6D; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53388619C6; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-04 update To: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20171204145644.hjd3jisybmndqn7p@adacore.com> Cc: tom@tromey.com, sergiodj@redhat.com, yao.qi@arm.com From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <218e185c-6d46-cd1a-b2e6-7d65e55d1209@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171204145644.hjd3jisybmndqn7p@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 On 12/04/2017 02:56 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hello, > > As far as I know, the issues identified the last time we did > an update on the branch have all been either - defered to the next > release (ARMv8.3-A Pointer Authentication suppport), or pushed. > See: https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_8.1_Release > > There are a number of PRs targetting 8.1 however. Should we wait > for those to be fixed before we branch? > > * [TomT] PR breakpoint/22511 > Regression in "commands" > > * [PedroA] PR gdb/Bug 22499 > 8.0 regression: wrongly read $xmm0 > > Pedro sent a patch for review on Nov 29th, so I think we can wait > for that one before branching. > > * [SergioDJ] PR cli/16224 > add "pahole" functionality to ptype > > Work is being done as we speak, with some patches sent. > I think we continue the wait. > > In addition, we have the following unassigned PR: > > * [YaoQ???] PR python/22475 > Python API: breakpoint subclass: GDB crashes if function called through parse_and_eval() exits > > Yao - are you working on this PR? I am asking because you marked it > as targetting 8.1 with the following message: "Set the target > milestone to 8.1, although it is not a regression from last release.". > > I'll continue monitor those PRs closely, and hope that we can branch > by, say, early next week. > > Am I missing other issues that you think should block the creation > of the 8.1 branch? One thing that I was thinking it'd be nice to see about getting into 8.1 was the DWARF5 index stuff (standard replacement for .gdb_index): https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-05/msg00577.html Not sure about making that the default (seems risky), but it might be nice to provide the option so that users/distros can start experimenting (and so that Fedora/RHEL doesn't end up having to backport yet another large series... :-P) . I tried to review that in the past but stumbled on choices I didn't quite understand, and there are also some open questions, but I was planning on taking another look. I can't really promise I/we can get it done this week, so not sure about blocking the branching because of it. Thanks, Pedro Alves