GDB 15.1 release update (2024-03-16)

GDB 15.1 release update (2024-03-16)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hi everyone,

Quick update on the GDB 15.1 release process, which we are now starting
in earnest. Target dates:

  - Pre-release:    13-14 April 2024
  - Release (15.1): 27-28 April 2024

It's a pretty aggressive target date, to which so far there was no
objection, so let's try to make it. However, do let us know if you think
there are important changes that we should have in GDB 15 that would
need more time.

Meanwhile, the status this week is similar to last week. We can see
by looking at the PRs in bugzilla that some of the issues are being
looked at and investigated, so we're making progress.

Here is a recap:

Fixed Since the Previous Update:
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Added Since the Last Update:
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  <none>

Other Ongoing Items:
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  * [TomT/AndrewB]
    Revert "Pass GUILE down to subdirectories"
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-January/205898.html

        Feb discussions:
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-February/206417.html

        Mar discussions:
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-March/207055.html

  * [CarlEL] testsuite/31312
    attach-many-short-lived-threads gives inconsistent results (POWER 10)
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31312

        Looked like the discussions have reached a consensus of accepting
        this failure (2024-03-09), but there was a second questin that
        wasn't wasn't understood yet, so Carl tried to dig deeper.
        Meanwhile, Thiago indicated he's seeing the same kind of behavior
        on AArch64 Linux (sometimes), and now has some leads he is
        pursuing (go Thiago!)

  * [TomT and/or SimonM] gdb/31331
    Wenum-constexpr-conversion should be fixed, soon treated as a hard error
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31331

        Last update was 2024-02-13.
        Marked as targeting 15.1, but not sure this one is blocking
        for 15.1...

  * [TomT] symtab/30837
    [gdb/symtab, index-cache] data race on current_inferior
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30837

        Patch submitted in Feb:
        [PATCH] Capture warnings when writing to the index cache
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-February/206595.html

  * [TomT] gdb/31261
    [gdb] ThreadSanitizer: data race objfiles.c:648 in objfile_relocate1
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31261

        Fix race in DWARF reader (v2, 2024-03-12):
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-March/207215.html

  * [TomT] gdb/31264
    [gdb] ThreadSanitizer: data race format.c:132 in bfd_preserve_save
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31264

    Last updated: 2023-03-15.

  * [<unassigned>] symtab/30520
    Slow lookup_symbol_in_objfile
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30520

        Feb patch series (v2, 2024-02-15):
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-February/206442.html

        IIUC, needs some adjustments, and also waiting for copyright
        assignment papers to get through.

Not Blocking, But Keep An Eye On:
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-- 
Joel