Re: gdb-7.8 MIPS assert failure in findvar.c

Michael Eager
2015-03-02T17:59:33Z

On 03/02/15 06:29, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> An assert failure on MIPS big-endian in findvar.c was fixed in
>> HEAD, but not applied to gdb-7.8.
>>
>> The patch is here:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-08/msg00567.html
>>
>> Applied and tested on gdb-7.8. OK to apply to gdb-7.8-branch?
>
> Do you really need this in the gdb-7.8 branch? This branch isn't
> exactly completely closed, but the chances of us making another
> release off of it are very small.

I'm doing nightly builds of several gdb branches (head, gdb-7.9,
and gdb-7.8) where I rebase local patches onto the repo branches.
I added this patch to our local patches then re-thought that it
should be part of the repo, not treated as a local mod.

> Anyway, if useful to you, go ahead and push to that branch.

Thanks.

Committed d99093fd0 to gdb-7.8-branch.

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