Re: DELAYED: GDB 6.7 branch creation scheduled June 25th

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:15:30AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Sorry, I'm a bit stuck right now and for the next few days.
> I will be in New York next week, and will create the branch
> from there.
> 
> I was going to use the 2007-06-17 date where to start the branch,
> but I might reconsider:
>   . Extensive gdbarch changes made by Markus and Ulrich
>     These should be pretty safe, and yet not including them in the
>     branch might complicate branch patch merging later on
>   . Daniel's adjustment in configure.ac ($objdir issue)
> 
> Also, this would allow us to include recent improvements such as:
>   . the qOffsets changes
> 
> I think there are also a couple of items that Daniel and someone
> else wanted in...
> 
> So I'll re-evaluate the situation on Monday.

gcore doesn't work properly on Linux/ia64. I can only get the first
frame:

[hjl@gnu-14 gcore-1]$ ./gdb gcore core.8246 
GNU gdb 6.6.50.20070619-cvs
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "ia64-unknown-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-ia64.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux-ia64.so.2
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
Core was generated by `/export/home/hjl/bugs/gdb/gcore-1/gcore'.
Program terminated with signal 5, Trace/breakpoint trap.
#0  terminal_func () at gcore.c:35
35        sleep (60);
Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
Function "internal_error" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
[answered N; input not from terminal]
Function "info_command" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
[answered N; input not from terminal]
/export/home/hjl/bugs/gdb/gcore-1/.gdbinit:8: Error in sourced command
file:
No breakpoint number 0.
(gdb) bt
#0  terminal_func () at gcore.c:35
(gdb) 

gdb 6.5-16.el5rh from RHEL5 works fine. I have no problem on
Linux/x86-64.


H.J.


H.J.