Re: preparing the upcoming GDB 7.4 release

Stan Shebs
2011-11-11T02:42:41Z

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