next GDB release update: 1 month to planned GDB 8.1.1 release

next GDB release update: 1 month to planned GDB 8.1.1 release

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello Team,

GDB 8.1 has been released 2 months ago, so our normal plans call for
an 8.1.1 release in about a month. It should be towards end of Apr,
beginning of May.

So far, it is looking like the GDB 8.1 release must have been very good,
because we only have 1 open PR marked blocking for 8.1, and 3 closed ones
that were fixed in 8.1.1 (including 1 that's purely documentation).

The open PR is the following:

  * [KeithS] PR symtab/23010 (Regression: Assertion: SYMBOL_LANGUAGE (sym) == DICT_LANGUAGE (dict)->la_language)

      This is a regression. The PR is unassigned, which creates a risk
      that no progress be made on this issue in time for the release.
      So I made KeithS its champion (being the one who seems to have
      taken the ticket on the RedHat side). Thanks Keith! ;-)

Are there any other serious issues that should be fixed in 8.1.1?

Thank you,
-- 
Joel

Re: next GDB release update: 1 month to planned GDB 8.1.1 release

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:33:35 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Are there any other serious issues that should be fixed in 8.1.1?

For example to make it buildable with gcc-8.0:
	[patch+8.1] Fix -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG gdb-add-index regression
	https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-02/msg00057.html
	Message-ID: <20180204193754.GA29011@host1.jankratochvil.net>

FYI there are also these warnings but those are not an error in the release
branches which have -Wno-error so rather just for trunk:
	Workaround gcc-8.0: -Wno-error=cast-function-type,stringop-truncation
	https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdb/c/4a848ebc3807cfd4c60bd26b6edfcb93c4bb931b?branch=master


Jan