Re: status on gdb-7.4 release...

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 12/22/2011 07:26 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> ... planned January 2nd.
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> We had the few usual late discoveries and hicups, but the 7.4 release
> seems well under way. As far as I know, there are a couple of
> regressions that have been detected and still not fixed:
>
>   1. Regression gdb.base/fixsection.exp&&  gdb.threads/thread_check.exp
>      http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00560.html
>
>   2. 7.3->7.4 s390x regressions
>      http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-12/msg00039.html
>
>      I think that these ones were marked as being a latent bug
>      caused by the kernel. Correct?
>      http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-12/msg00743.html
>
> Anything else I might have missed?

A yet unreported observation on my part:

gdb-7.3.91 installs $(includedir)/gdb/jit-reader.h

No idea what this is, why gdb does so and what it would be useful for.

To me it looks like a header without a corresponding library.

Ralf