Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit

Nick Roberts
2008-06-22T11:52:50Z

> | * Next GDB Release:
> |
> | Lots of new features, but not ready for real release. When
> | the features are in, need a little more maturing time before
> | shipping it in an official release. Suggest next release
> | in 6 months from now (Jan-Feb 2009).
> |
> | For people really interested in trying it out before the official
> | release, perhaps either:
> | - Announce various nightly tarballs that contain the features
> | - Or perhaps create a 6.9 branch but never release 6.9. Just
> | make various pre-releases 6.8.90, 6.8.91, etc.

If you are talking about branching now, I think that will mean that most
development will happen on the branch, i.e., there's not much point in
branching. You might as well make bugfix releases, or what GDB calls respins,
6.8.1, 6.8.2 etc from the 6.8 branch.

>...
> | * Fix and continue:
> |
> | Perhaps try to implement this feature through the use of Python.
> | For instance, use python to build a return value, and return that.

Apple GDB already has fix and continue. Couldn't that be used as a reference
implementaton?

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