Re: GDB 7.7 branching on Monday?

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> I have 4 patches I like to see in GDB 7.7:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00309.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00307.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00313.html
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00310.html
>
> I'll need a little more from you.  What's your estimate for getting them

As you said, they are small changes.  But I don't know when
Mark will have time to review them.

> in, and what are the consequences of not having them for 7.7?

Reverse debugging won't work for x32 without them.

> Here is what I propose: We go ahead with the branch on Monday.
> Looking at the patches, they seem to be relatively simple enough
> that they should be good candidates for backporting to the branch
> if they get approved after Monday.
>

It sounds good to me.

BTW, what can/should GDB community do to reduce review time
for x86 specific changes, especially those small changes.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.