Re: GDB 7.7 branching on Monday?

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

On Friday, December 20 2013, Joel Brobecker wrote:

>> Now, I am sorry for not having updated the wiki!  I would really like to
>> see the SystemTap SDT probe support for AArch64 in.  It is a simple
>> patch, has been pre-reviewed before, but I had to do other improvements
>> on the general SDT API before submitting it again.
>
> No, thank you for letting me know. This answer is the reason why
> it's important for me to send these "heads up" messages.

Thanks a lot for that, again!

>> The new API has been approved in:
>> 
>> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00660.html>
>> 
>> I was waiting for Mark Kettenis' comments on it, but I decided to check
>> the patch in today and proceed with the AArch64 submission.
>> 
>> Now, what do you want me to do?  Maybe update the wiki?  I hope that the
>> AArch64 patch will be approved very quickly, so maybe I'll even be able
>> to push it this weekend.
>
> I will venture a guess that you'll be able to get this one push
> by Monday, but even if you don't, I think it'll be sufficiently
> contained that we can backport it to the branch.

Yeah, nice, I believe things will be covered until Monday, indeed.

> In the meantime, let's add the patch to the wiki, if only for
> posterity :).

Great, I've added an entry below the Todo: section.

Thanks!

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Sergio