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

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 22:58:27, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>   * Multiprocess support:
>     Sounds like work is also underway. Status update on how far we are?

 Most of the gdbserver bits required for multi-process are now in
mainline.  I've left remote protocol support for follow-fork and
follow-exec support in the branch, as I'm not completelly happy
with the implementation there.

Then there's a lot to do:

  1) Basic native linux multiprocess support.
  2) Add multi-executable support
  3) Make breakpoints aware of execs/address-spaces/inferiors
  4) CLI syntax for the 2-4 above
  5) Shared-libraries per-inferior

Plus a bunch of things mentioned in the MultiProcess wiki page
that need to be fixed.

#1 I'm cleaning up right now for submission.

Maybe with this in place it will be easier to recruit
some help.  :-)

#2 and #3 and #4 are in the multi-process branch, but, they
need work to make it suitable for targets that share code
across inferiors.  There are a couple of hacks in there to
fix too.  #3 needs addressing of the issues raised in
the wiki page.

#5 needs doing.

We're a few weeks away from having this done, hopefuly,
before branch-time.

-- 
Pedro Alves