Re: GDB 9.1 release: Start of stabilization period ?

[Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>]

On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 15:19 -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Now that the 8.3.1 release is out, I think now is a good time to
> prepare the 9.1 release. I looked at the gdb/NEWS file and it is
> chockablock full of goodies!
> 
> At the moment, there aren't any issues in bugzilla that are marked
> pending for GDB 9.1.
> 
> Are there any issues that people would like to be fixed, before
> we release GDB 9.1? For those issues, it would be good to see whether
> these are blocking issues prior to branching, or not.
> 
> In the meantime, while we start collecting the list of issues
> we want to fix for 9.1, if there aren't any objection, I'd like us
> to start a cooling period so as to stabilize GDB prior to branching.

Here are the patches sent for review
(by order of first submission, but pointing at the last exchange):

RFC Have an option to tell GDB to detect and possibly handle mismatched exec-files
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00580.html

Convenience functions $_gdb_setting/$_gdb_setting_str
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00581.html

Allow the user to define default leading args for commands and aliases
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00583.html

Implement 'print -raw-values' and 'set print raw-values on|off'
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00582.html

More flexible user-defined commands prefixing and naming.
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-09/msg00588.html


And here is the advocacy to include them ...

The first one fixes an annoying GDB behavior.

I think the second one is now ready to push.

The third and fourth are useful additions or complements
to the GDB 9.1 'with' and 'option framework' functionalities.

Assuming that with the stabilisation period, there is more review
bandwidth, then the last one is nice to have :).

Thanks
Philippe