GDB 11.2 ("re-spin") update (2021-12-04)

GDB 11.2 ("re-spin") update (2021-12-04)

[Joel Brobecker]

Hi everyone,

Quick update: Although nothing is moving to the "now fixed" section,
we have made some progress on a couple of the items, with patches
either pushed to master, or approved. The third patch is just waiting
for a review, so I sent a review request.


Fixed Since the Previous Update:
--------------------------------

< none >


Added Since the Last Update:
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< none :) >

Other Ongoing Items:
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 * [Andrew?] <PR gdb/28405>
   arm-none-eabi: internal-error: first_resumed_thread != nullptr failed assertion
   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28405

   v2 version of the patch (Nov 23):
   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-November/183720.html

  * [Tromey] <*** NEEDS BUGZILLA PR ***>
    Allow DW_ATE_UTF for Rust characters

    Patched approved.

 * [BrunoL] <PR c++/28480>
   Incorrect field ambiguity detection due to [[no_unique_address]]
   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28480

   Currently fixed in master.
   Needs to get approval (from Global Maintainer) that the patch
   is safe to backport to gdb-11-branch.


Not Critical, but Requested:
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  * [SimonM as awesome supporter and reviewer] <PR gdb/24069>
    gdb on OSX Mojave hangs in darwin_decode_message
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24069

        Some movement on Nov 27th, after a period of no progress since
        Jul 2021.

        I know that the state of GDB on MacOS is very poor at the moment,
        and so having this PR fixed for 11.1 would be very nice. I don't
        think this PR should block the release, though. This is not new,
        and I'm not sure whether we can expect for us to converge without
        too much delay. There are good signs, though, with regular
        activity on the PR, lately. So let's see how it goes...

  * [BerndE] Improve debugging of optimized code
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/175617.html

    This is reported to fix <PR c++/25987>
    Wrong line for code containing inlined functions

    Andrew xref-ed to https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94474

    (2021-09-05) v3 posted at:
      [0/3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/181829.html
      [1/3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/181830.html
      [2/3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/181831.html
      [3/3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/181832.html

    Looks like those patches are a challenge to review
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-September/181930.html

  * [Simon] <PR gdb/26868>
    Follow-up on x86-64 stub submission
    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26868

    This is the submission in question:
    https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-November/173182.html

    For me, although I am not a lawyer, I don't think we can accept
    the contribution without the author signing a copyright assignment
    form.

  * [PhilippeW] Fix/complete option list/description in manual and in gdb --help

    RFA v2 (2021-06-20):
        [RFAV2] Fix/complete option list/description in manual and in gdb --help.
        https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-June/180186.html

-- 
Joel

Re: GDB 11.2 ("re-spin") update (2021-12-04)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Joel>   * [Tromey] <*** NEEDS BUGZILLA PR ***>
Joel>     Allow DW_ATE_UTF for Rust characters
Joel>     Patched approved.

This is PR rust/28637 and the patch is on the 11 branch now.

Tom