Re: GDB 12 preparation -- 2022-02-20 update

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

Hi Andrew,

> > Other Ongoing Items:
> > --------------------
> >
> >   * [BarisA/AndrewB] <PR cli/28833>
> >     Ctrl-D distorts GDB prompt
> >     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28833
> >
> >
> >         Baris requested that we consider the bug above, which seems
> >         to be a GDB 11 regression for Baris.
> >
> >         Andrew posted progress on the PR. Currently coordinating
> >         with the readline maintainers (seems to be progressing well)...
> 
> My ideal solution here would be to have an official readline patch
> committed upstream, which we can then backport, along with a GDB patch,
> to fix this issue.
> 
> If it looks like a readline patch isn't going to appear any time soon,
> then I'll post something later this week which we can consider - maybe
> just including it in the GDB 12 branch, and then wait for an official
> readline patch to include in master.
> 
> But I think we can give upstream readline a few more days to see how
> that plays out.

Agreed. I don't think we're in a rush, since we are still a month
away from our target branching date.

-- 
Joel