Re: Propose GDB 10 branch this Fri-Sun (Sep 11-13) [2020-09-05 Update]

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2020-09-08 9:51 a.m., Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 08.09.2020 15:49, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> I think that's reasonable.  I just finished taking a look, I did review it
>>> as best as I could.  There's not much risk in merging it, and the sooner this
>>> is available upstream, the better, so I think we should just go ahead with it.
>>>
>>> Of course, the more pair of eyes on the code the better, so if somebody else
>>> wants to take a look, go ahead.
>>>
>>> I would also consider including the gdbserver support for ARC, with the same
>>> logic.  But I don't think that has to block the branch creation, we can easily
>>> cherry-pick it.
>>
>> I'm not opposed to these going into GDB 10 on the basis that they
>> are isolated pieces of code that can't affect the rest. On the other
>> hand, if those can be safely pushed at the last minute, they should
>> also be cherry-pickable on the branch, so given the very large delay
>> the branching has already suffered, I would not delay branching
>> for this new feature further. We can simply cherry-pick those later.
>> Would that be acceptable?
>>
> 
> Personally, I consider the patchset to be ready to merge, but it depends
> on the reviewers with approval privilege.
> 

This is now merged (any post-merge review is welcome, but I believed it looked good enough that we didn't need to delay it further).

Simon