From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24461 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2008 02:29:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 24453 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2008 02:29:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from igw1.br.ibm.com (HELO igw1.br.ibm.com) (32.104.18.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:29:03 +0000 Received: from mailhub1.br.ibm.com (mailhub1 [9.18.232.109]) by igw1.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7600E32C13C for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:00:54 -0300 (BRT) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.18.232.47]) by mailhub1.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m6T2T5aC2543956 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:29:05 -0300 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m6T2SxWx010156 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:28:59 -0300 Received: from [9.8.6.115] ([9.8.6.115]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m6T2SxSI009825; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:28:59 -0300 Subject: suggestion: release GDB 6.8.1 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: gdb ml Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:09:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1217298517.13250.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00285.txt.bz2 Hi everybody, Since the next big GDB release will take a while yet in order to wait for the current developments to settle down, I'd like to suggest making a point release to get some patches out there earlier. In particular, Ulrich Weigand fixed issues with versioned symbols and plt entries in ppc64-linux which fix a number of failures in the GDB testsuite and are also easy enough to stumble upon in practice. Up until now I have the following list of patches which I'd like to include: - Re: [RFA] Fix GDB's handling of the inferior controlling terminal. http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-03/msg00126.html - Fix several PowerPC64 ABI issues http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-05/msg00118.html - Handle minimal symbols pointing to function descriptors: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-05/msg00120.html This one actually depends on a patch which introduces get_objfile_arch, which in turn depends on a patch reworking DWARF-2 address size handling. Instead of pulling all that, it's easier to just replace all calls to get_objfile_arch by current_gdbarch. - Fix stepping into solib function on powerpc64-linux http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-05/msg00451.html Sérgio already backported the patches above to GDB 6.8 and ran the testsuite on ppc-linux and ppc64-linux, finding no regressions. For ppc64, the following improvement is seen: === gdb Summary === -# of expected passes 12042 -# of unexpected failures 150 +# of expected passes 12080 +# of unexpected failures 112 # of unexpected successes 2 # of expected failures 44 # of known failures 39 # of untested testcases 10 # of unsupported tests 41 Which is nothing to sneeze at. However, current CVS HEAD on the same machine gives: === gdb Summary === # of expected passes 12641 # of unexpected failures 73 # of expected failures 41 # of known failures 61 # of unresolved testcases 2 # of untested testcases 10 # of unsupported tests 43 So I guess there are a few other patches worth including in the branch. I'll see if I can spot them. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center