Re: Remaining 7.5 regressions (Re: [ARM, commit, RFA 7.5] Fix HW breakpoints on unaligned addresses)

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Thursday, August 02 2012, Ulrich Weigand wrote:

> Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
>> Would you guys mind keeping the list up to date on the 7.5 release
>> wiki page? This gives everyone an easy location for finding out what
>> still needs to be fixed before we can release...
>> 
>>     http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.5_Release
>
> I've completed another full test sequence on ARM, Cell (PowerPC & SPU)
> and s390, both native and remote, with the current 7.5 branch.  Of the
> issues I originally described, the following "real" problems remain:
>
> - Hardware watchpoints across fork are not supported (ARM, ppc, s390)
> - Missing 32-/64-bit siginfo conversion code (ppc, s390)
> - SPU gdbserver does not support multi-process mode
>
> Since all these are are pre-existing problems, they shouldn't be
> treated as release blockers, so I have *not* put them on the Wiki.

Thanks for this.

> In addition, there's the following testsuite-only issues:
>
> - A few C++ test regressions (potentially compiler issues)

Still couldn't find the problem in GDB.

> - Failures in gdb.base/pc-fp.exp

I have committed the patch for this.

> - Failures in gdb.mi/mi-var-rtti.exp

Probably won't have time to tackle this until tomorrow, but it does not
seem to be a blocker.

> Sergio: I haven't been working on these ...  If you feel they
> should go on the Wiki as release blockers, would you mind doing
> so yourself?

No problem.  As far as I have investigated, I do not feel they are
release blockers, so I guess we are pretty much covered for the release.

Thanks,

-- 
Sergio