Re: gdb 7.0: 5 weeks to branch-time...

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>]

El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 14:58 -0700, Joel Brobecker escribió:
> We're getting closer to our desired branch time, so I thought
> a quick update on our situation would be nice. I'm looking at
> our TODO list for this release
> (http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_7.0_Release):

There are two bugzillas that I think should be addressed for 7.0.
Actually, only one of those would need to be fixed for 7.0:

PR/9174 - gdb can't handle PIE
PR/9723 - gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries

The latter is actually about adding a warning stating that PIE binaries
are not supported, when GDB detects that it's handling one of those,
while we don't fix PR/9174.

Since it's probably somewhat difficult to add full PIE support, I think
we should aim to fix PR/9174 in 7.1, and fix PR/9723 for 7.0. Hence, I'd
like to add PR/9723 to the "issues which should be addressed before the
7.0 release" list in the wiki, and PR/9174 to the "optional action
items" list. WDYT?

> Thanks, everyone. I can't wait to see 7.0 out :).

+1!
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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