From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 99122 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2017 17:02:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 99113 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2017 17:02:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_1,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=promise X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:02:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54003116D18; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:02:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ywDtNvl4qaVL; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:02:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D73A116CB3; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:02:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F0EC809B1; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 18:02:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:02:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tom@tromey.com, sergiodj@redhat.com, yao.qi@arm.com Subject: Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-04 update Message-ID: <20171204170202.lfukxwrqgzgbfxqm@adacore.com> References: <20171204145644.hjd3jisybmndqn7p@adacore.com> <218e185c-6d46-cd1a-b2e6-7d65e55d1209@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <218e185c-6d46-cd1a-b2e6-7d65e55d1209@redhat.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 > One thing that I was thinking it'd be nice to see about getting > into 8.1 was the DWARF5 index stuff (standard replacement for > .gdb_index): > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-05/msg00577.html > > Not sure about making that the default (seems risky), but it > might be nice to provide the option so that users/distros can > start experimenting (and so that Fedora/RHEL doesn't end up > having to backport yet another large series... :-P) . I tried > to review that in the past but stumbled on choices I didn't quite > understand, and there are also some open questions, but I was > planning on taking another look. I can't really promise I/we can > get it done this week, so not sure about blocking the branching > because of it. Indeed, it would be nice, and we can wait a bit to see if we manage to get it in. But looking at the size of the patch, unless you think it's almost ready and it's only a matter of a few fixes here and there, it seems like this might be a bit risky... Let's give ourselves this week, and see where we get. In the meantime, I've added this to the "maybe" section, before 18.1 branching. -- Joel