Re: GDB 13 Release 2022-09-11 update

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 9/11/22 20:26, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We are now in September, and I think now is a good time to start
> working on our next major release.
> 
> Are there any issues we think should be fixed before we create
> the GDB 13 branch?
> 
> Looking at the PRs targetting 13.1 in bugzilla
> (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=24362&product=gdb&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=13.1)
> 
> ... I only see one "meta" bug related to TomT's new meta indexer.
> Do we have a list of known remaining issues that we need to fix?
> 

Perhaps it would be worth clarifying the status of support for .gdb_index.

It is the defacto standard for the index cache, but ada support is 
broken ( https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29179 ).

Do we want to fix this?

Do we want to deprecate .gdb_index and start using .debug_names for the 
index cache?

Or are we fine with the status quo (which then might need documenting)?

Thanks,
- Tom