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Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10)
- From: Antoine Tremblay <antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>, <antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>, <mishra dot nitish dot 88 at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:00:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: GDB 8.0 release / imminent branching? (2017-04-10)
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Joel Brobecker writes:
> Hello,
>
> We're now about 4 weeks after our tentative branching date, and
> I am concerned that if we continue to wait for some of the pending
> issues to be resolved, we'll have new issues appearing on master
> that'll might delay the branching further. So I'd like to propose
> we branch in the next couple of days, and then backport fixes,
> so as to stabilize the branch.
>
> We have two 8.0 pending PRs:
>
> * server/21169 GDBServer on ARM can crash the inferior while single stepping
>
> Antoine indicated that he's working on it, and his expected
> completion date isn't all that far away. Still on track for
> that, Antoine?
Yes I just posted a patch with a partial fix for that. I'm afraid the
full fix will have to wait however.