From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15933 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2011 02:42:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 15728 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Nov 2011 02:42:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.70) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:42:23 +0000 Received: from [70.170.59.51] (helo=macbook2.local) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ROh4Q-0005mB-GB for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:42:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4EBC8B8D.1070405@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:42:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: preparing the upcoming GDB 7.4 release References: <20111107175402.GI14508@adacore.com> <4EBBA2E8.2000203@codesourcery.com> <20111110154311.GA5390@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20111110154311.GA5390@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da94028cb5dc6c9f0caaf48f666fa520ecde0350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00307.txt.bz2 On 11/10/11 7:43 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I hope `pending tracepoint' which I am working on can be in 7.4 >> release. Patches are nearly done, and most (70%) of them were sent >> for review in this patch set, >> >> [patch 0/8] Download tracepoint locations when tracing is running >> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00168.html > For new features like this, I think you need to convince the Global > Maintainers as a group that there is a good reason for waiting. > Reasons could be: > - It's only going to be a few more days at most > - Some other features would not be usable without it > - It's a killer feature > It *is* a killer feature! :-) And I swear there is no conflict of interest whatsoever in me saying that. :-) Actually it does fix a major longstanding bug in tracepoint support, which is that tracepoints in shared library code don't work unless the library has been loaded already. Marc Khouzam has bumped into this one I believe, dunno if there's a bugzilla entry for it. Stan