Re: GDB 10.1 release: branching early July?

[Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>]

 Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2020, 03:56:26 MESZ hat Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> Folgendes geschrieben:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Now that the GDB 9.2 release has been out for a few weeks, what
> do you think about turning our attention to starting the GDB 10
> release cycle?  I looked at the NEWS file, and there is a decent
> number of new features.
>
> Based on that, what do you think of aiming for branching during
> the weekend of July 4th? That's 3 weeks from now. We would then
> be creating the first pre-release at the same time if possible,
> and then try to aim for a release 2-3 weeks afterwards.
>
> Are there any changes that you think we should have in master
> before we create the branch?
>
> This is what is current in the 10.1 list on Bugzilla:
>
>   * [unassigned]
>     <PR gdb/25412> thread_info with duplicate ptid added to inferior thread list
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25412
>
>     Reported by Simon, who started investigating a bit.
>     Simon says the issue appeared after the "multi-target" patch
>     series went in (5b6d1e4fa by Pedro).
>
>     Simon - is that still an issue?
>
>   * [RainerO]
>     <PR gdb/25939> [10 regression] run fails with ICE on Solaris
>
>     Not sure if this is still an issue or not. Rainer did push some
>     patches to master back in May. To be confirmed.
>
> I also know of the following issue which I think should get fixed
> before we branch:
>
>   * [AndrewB/TomT]
>     QEMU / GDB compatibility on RISCV64 ELF (failure to fetch some registers)
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169393.html
>
> Anything else you think we should include?

For Windows it would be good that win32/25302 is fixed:
Mismatching fstat() function calls in gdb_bfd_open() and cache_bstat()
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25302

TomT had some patches here:
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/gdb-patches/2020-01/msg00386.html


Hannes