GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Joel Brobecker]

Hello,

Great progress last week!

As far as I know, the only item that it would be nice to have being
pushed before branching is:

  * [SergioDJ] PR cli/16224
    add "pahole" functionality to ptype

    I just saw a second ping. Hoping for a quick review.

Aside from that, we have a number of entries which have been identified
as blocking for 8.1 (so branching would be OK, but we would wand to
fix them before we make the official release):

  * [Pedro] gdb/22556
    Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with --target_board=native-gdbserver

  * [Pedro] gdb/22583
    gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp regressions on software single-step targets

  * [Pedro] gdb/22584
    Regression: expression completer and scope operator ("p std::[TAB]" => "p std::std::")

  * [TomT] no PR yet
    Regression on 32-bit: gdb.guile/scm-ports.exp [Re: [RFA 1/2] Fix two regressions in scalar printing
    https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00215.html

  * [UlrichW] no PR yet
    Regression on i686 host: gdb.base/floatn.exp: [RFC v2][2/2] Target FP: Make use of MPFR if available
    https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00216.html

Based on the above, I'll re-evaluate the situation on Wed, and see
if Sergio's patch is in or not, and try to wait a little extra if
needed. If the patch takes too long to get in, we may have to settle
for backporting the patch into 8.1.

-- 
Joel

Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Ulrich Weigand]

Joel Brobecker wrote:

>   * [UlrichW] no PR yet
>     Regression on i686 host: gdb.base/floatn.exp: [RFC v2][2/2] Target FP: Make use of MPFR if available
>     https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00216.html

I've just pushed a fix for this one.

Bye,
Ulrich

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Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Pedro Alves]

On 12/11/2017 01:56 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Aside from that, we have a number of entries which have been identified
> as blocking for 8.1 (so branching would be OK, but we would wand to
> fix them before we make the official release):
> 
>   * [Pedro] gdb/22556
>     Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with --target_board=native-gdbserver

Note: if someone could help with this one, I'd appreciate it.
Just doing a git bisect to find what caused this would help.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-12-11 08:56, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Great progress last week!
> 
> As far as I know, the only item that it would be nice to have being
> pushed before branching is:
> 
>   * [SergioDJ] PR cli/16224
>     add "pahole" functionality to ptype
> 
>     I just saw a second ping. Hoping for a quick review.

I saw there was a quite active discussion, so I thought someone was 
already on the case, oops!  I'm taking a look right now, but if anybody 
else wants to review as well you're welcome.

Simon

Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-12-11 09:33 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 12/11/2017 01:56 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
>> Aside from that, we have a number of entries which have been identified
>> as blocking for 8.1 (so branching would be OK, but we would wand to
>> fix them before we make the official release):
>>
>>   * [Pedro] gdb/22556
>>     Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with --target_board=native-gdbserver
> 
> Note: if someone could help with this one, I'd appreciate it.
> Just doing a git bisect to find what caused this would help.

Well, it's a test I added, and the offending commit is mine:

  remote: C++ify thread_item and threads_listing_context
  21fe1c752e254167d953fa8c846280f63a3a5290

So I guess I don't really have a choice but to look at this.

Simon

Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-12-11 11:57 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2017-12-11 09:33 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 12/11/2017 01:56 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>
>>> Aside from that, we have a number of entries which have been identified
>>> as blocking for 8.1 (so branching would be OK, but we would wand to
>>> fix them before we make the official release):
>>>
>>>   * [Pedro] gdb/22556
>>>     Regression: gdb.threads/names.exp with --target_board=native-gdbserver
>>
>> Note: if someone could help with this one, I'd appreciate it.
>> Just doing a git bisect to find what caused this would help.
> 
> Well, it's a test I added, and the offending commit is mine:
> 
>   remote: C++ify thread_item and threads_listing_context
>   21fe1c752e254167d953fa8c846280f63a3a5290
> 
> So I guess I don't really have a choice but to look at this.
> 
> Simon
> 

Patch sent.

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00242.html

Re: GDB 8.1 branching 2017-12-11 update

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Monday, December 11 2017, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Great progress last week!
>
> As far as I know, the only item that it would be nice to have being
> pushed before branching is:
>
>   * [SergioDJ] PR cli/16224
>     add "pahole" functionality to ptype
>
>     I just saw a second ping. Hoping for a quick review.

This has been pushed now.  Thanks for everybody who got involved in the
review, and thanks Joel for waiting :-).

Cheers,

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