GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-23 update (T - 2 weeks?)

GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-23 update (T - 2 weeks?)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello everyone,

We're about 2 weeks away from the planned date 8.1.1 release.

Currently, we have two items identified in our 8.1.1 TODO:

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

      	This is a regression. Tom sent a patch which got peer-reviewed
        by KeithS, but still needs a Maintainer to look at it:
        https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-04/msg00234.html

        I will take a look later this week, if no one else does.

  * [KevinB] Setting breakpoints with -freorder-blocks-and-partition

    	Looks like this is a latent bug, but made much more visible
    	by newer versions of GCC having made that switch the default.

    	This one was added to the 8.1.1 so we don't forget to evalute
    	its status before we ship 8.1.1. Any update?

Jan mentioned one patch last week, but I believe it was gdb/23053,
which is now marked as fixed.

Anything else that we should consider?

Thanks!
-- 
Joel

Re: GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-23 update (T - 2 weeks?)

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:12:25 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Jan mentioned one patch last week, but I believe it was gdb/23053,
> which is now marked as fixed.

Yes.


Jan

Re: GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-23 update (T - 2 weeks?)

[Kevin Buettner]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:12:25 -0700
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:

>   * [KevinB] Setting breakpoints with -freorder-blocks-and-partition
> 
>     	Looks like this is a latent bug, but made much more visible
>     	by newer versions of GCC having made that switch the default.
> 
>     	This one was added to the 8.1.1 so we don't forget to evalute
>     	its status before we ship 8.1.1. Any update?

I don't think that there is an easy fix for this one.  I'd prefer to defer it
for after 8.1.1.

Kevin

Re: GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-23 update (T - 2 weeks?)

[Joel Brobecker]

> >   * [KevinB] Setting breakpoints with -freorder-blocks-and-partition
> > 
> >     	Looks like this is a latent bug, but made much more visible
> >     	by newer versions of GCC having made that switch the default.
> > 
> >     	This one was added to the 8.1.1 so we don't forget to evalute
> >     	its status before we ship 8.1.1. Any update?
> 
> I don't think that there is an easy fix for this one.  I'd prefer to defer it
> for after 8.1.1.

Okidoke. If there are no objection (I'll give it a week), I'll change
the target milestone to 8.2 instead.

Thanks Kevin!
-- 
Joel

GDB 8.1.1 release 2018-04-30 update (T - 1 week?)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello everyone,

About one more week to go until our planned re-spin. We have no
commitment to release by that time, so we can delay a bit if it
makes sense.

We have one item left on the list:

>   * [KeithS/TomT] PR symtab/23010 (Regression: Assertion: SYMBOL_LANGUAGE (sym) == DI
> CT_LANGUAGE (dict)->la_language)
> 
>        This is a regression. Tom sent a patch which got peer-reviewed
>        by KeithS, but still needs a Maintainer to look at it:
>        https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-04/msg00234.html

I took a look at it, and gave it a nod, but I can't say that it was
a firm approval, so, for me, whether we can fix this issue in 8.1.1
still needs to be discussed (follow the thread above).

I haven't heard of new issues discovered this week that might block
the release. If you do, please let us know.

Next update in a week!

Thanks :)
-- 
Joel