Re: GDB 8.2 release 2018-08-21 status update

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:57:18 -0700
Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:51:36 -0700
> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> 
> >   * [KevinB] PR gdb/23021
> >     Setting breakpoints with -freorder-blocks-and-partition
> >     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23021
> > 
> > 	Identified as needed in the previous release, but couldn't do it
> >         in time. We should be very close, now:
> >         [v3] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-08/msg00467.html
> > 
> >         I'm wondering how reasonable it's going to be to backport
> >         those changes onto the branch, though... Any thoughts on that?
> >         Kevin? Simon?  
> 
> I was able to apply the eight "non-contiguous address range support"
> patches to my local checkout of gdb-8.2-branch.  Part #2 needed some
> fixing, but everything else applied cleanly (which kind of surprised
> me).
> 
> I've tested on x86-64.  No regressions.
> 
> Let me know if you want it pushed...

Based on comments and discussion from Simon and Pedro elsewhere in
this thread, it seems that it ought to go in, so...

I've pushed the "non-contiguous address range support" patches to
gdb-8.2-branch.

Kevin