Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,        antoine.tremblay@ericsson.com, mishra.nitish.88@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:21:27 +0200
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10 2017, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
> > * build/21187	Static linking of libstdc++ and libgcc with GDB leads to broken exception handling on AIX platform
> >
> >      For this one, I think the feedback so far is a question about
> >      the fact that this is only a work around. Parallel to that,
> >      did I see a thread where people are discussing a real fix
> >      for the exception handling issue?
> >
> >      So, perhaps we might not need the GDB patch after all?
> >      Is there a version of GCC capable of compiling GDB 8.x
> >      on AiX?
> 
> Maybe not be relevant for answering your question, but the issue doesn't
> seem to be restricted to AIX.  It occurs on Windows with mingw as well,
> see gdb/21078 ("gdb compiled with mingw32 crashes on Windows7 when
> entering any invalid command").

I cannot reproduce gdb/21078 in GDB 7.12 built with MinGW using static
linking of libstdc++ and libgcc.  I tried on Windows XP.  Maybe the OP
has some other issue with his build, like some inconsistency in how
exceptions are handled?