Re: GDB 10 branching - 2020-06-27 Update

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2020-06-27 11:40 a.m., Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Great progress last week, as the first section of this report will
> indicate! So far, we're down to 3 identified issues we would like
> to fix before branching. As always, if you see anything else that
> you think should make the list, please let us know!
> 
> As a reminder, the proposal was to try to branch during the weekend
> of July 4th if we can, which is very soon. From there, we would then
> aim for a release 2-3 weeks later.
> 
> Fixed Since the Previous Update:
> --------------------------------
> 
>   * [RainerO/PedroA]
>     <PR gdb/25939> [10 regression] run fails with ICE on Solaris
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25939
> 
>   * [AndrewB/TomT]
>     QEMU / GDB compatibility on RISCV64 ELF (failure to fetch some registers)
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169393.html
> 
>     Reference to the patch series that got pushed a couple of days ago:
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169561.html
>     Subject: RISC-V target description and register handling fixes
> 
>   * [PhilippeW]
>     <PR gdb/25475>
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25475
> 
>   * [PhilippeW]
>     Allow the user to define default args for aliases
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169467.html
> 
> Added Since the Last Update:
> ----------------------------
> 
>   * [Unassigned (reported by LuisM)] <PR gdb/26175>
>     Regression on testsuite due to changes to default_target_compile
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26175
> 
>     Patch causes some options to be missing when compiling test code.
> 
>   * [AndrewB]
>     Fix Python unwinders and inline frames
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169789.html
> 
>     Difficult issue to solve. Andrew mentioned he would appreciate
>     feedback from others who might be familiar with this area
>     (inline frames hanlding). Andrew provided in his commit revlog
>     a very detailed explanation of the situation.
> 
> Other Ongoing Items:
> --------------------
> 
>   * [TomT/HannesD]
>     <PR win32/25302> Mismatching fstat() function calls in gdb_bfd_open() and cache_bstat()
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25302
> 
>     Latest discussion at:
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169670.html
> 
> Not Critical, but Requested:
> ----------------------------
> 
>   <none>
> 
> -- 
> Joel
> 

Another item would be the Guile 2.2 and 3.0 support, the latest version
being here:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169936.html

It's been a quite long-running issue:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21104

and it's nice to finally have someone address it.  It would be a shame
I think if it didn't make it into this release.

I have looked at the patches, but I know nothing about this, so I can't
review them properly.  Do you know who would be most qualified to review
this?

Simon