Re: GDB 14 branching & release -- 2023-09-24 update

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 9/24/23 10:29, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We've made some progress last week, as the summary below will show.
> I'm hoping we'll be able to create the first branch soon. If Luis'
> PR gdb/30689 goes in soon, then we'll create the branch soon after
> that. If it takes more than another week or two, then we'll have
> to discuss what we want to do -- keep waiting or branch without it,
> and then backport. I haven't looked into the details of the patch
> series; from the surface is mostly AArch64-focused, but not entirely,
> and it is also pretty largish...
> 
> More news next week.
> 
> Fixed Since the Previous Update:
> --------------------------------
> 
>   * [Gregory Anders] (DAP series)
>     Various DAP fixes
>     v2: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-September/202123.html
> 
>   * [TomT] (DAP series)
>     Handle pointers and references correctly in DAP
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-September/202169.html
> 
> Added Since the Last Update:
> ----------------------------
> 
>   * [TomT]
>     Add pretty-printer base class and new methods
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-September/202342.html
> 
> Other Ongoing Items:
> --------------------
> 
>  * [LuisM] PR gdb/30689
>    [AArch64] gdb scalable matrix extension (SME1 and SME2) support
>    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30689
> 
>    SME1 v7 series (Sep 18):
>    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-September/202581.html
> 
>    SME2 v5 series (Sep 13):
>    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-September/202597.html
> 
> Not Blocking, But Keep An Eye On:
> ---------------------------------
> 
>   < none >

Hi Joel,

I identified this regression in gdb.base/gcore.exp with the
native-extended-gdbserver board:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30912

I don't think it should be blocking the branching, but it should be
fixed / cherry-picked before the release.

Simon