Re: GDB 11 branching update (2021-06-13)

Rainer Orth
2021-06-17T07:37:13Z

Hi Joel,

> Other Ongoing Items:
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> * [RainerO] <PR binutils/27666>
> ar doesn't create indices on Solaris/sparcv9
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27666
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> Causes large number of tests to fail in gdb's testsuite.
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> 2021-06-09: Binutils patch pushed to master should normally
> make the issue go away (waiting for confirmation):
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f75bcf7e574c511f0ea742e05e5ae6e19bf29a92

as expected, the partial reversal fixed the issue both on the binutils
side and for gdb. Test results are back to normal: bad (ca. 3000
FAILs), but no worse than before.

Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University