GDB 7.9.x Release Management
[NAME] at the beginning of each item is the name of a point of contact who will help trying to get the issue fixed faster.
Current Status
- Current tentative branch date: 2015-01-12
- Branch Created: 2015-01-13
- GDB 7.9 released: 2015-02-21
- Current tentative date for 7.9.1: 2015-05-13
- GDB 7.9.1 release: 2015-05-13
[No further releases planned on this branch]
Fixes in the GDB 7.9 branch (not in any release).
Todo: [Please use the following format: [assignee] PR xxx/nnnnn (one-line description of PR)]
Maybe:
[Pedro?] PR17837 (python-injected silent breakpoints broken since 1a853c52)
- Still being investigated...
Done: [Please use the following format: PR xxx/nnnnn (one-line description of PR)]
PR gdb/18464 (Do not crash on unrecognized GNU .note.ABI-tag values)
PR gdb/18511 (DJGPP debugger does not work anymore)
Fixes in GDB 7.9.1
Todo: [Please use the following format: [assignee] PR xxx/nnnnn (one-line description of PR)]
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Done: [Please use the following format: PR xxx/nnnnn (one-line description of PR)]
PR build/18033 C++ style comment used in gdb/iq2000-tdep.c and gdb/compile/compile-*.c
PR build/18298 "compile" command cannot find compiler if tools configured with triplet instead of quadruplet
PR tui/18311 Random SEGV when displaying registers in TUI mode
PR python/18299 exception when registering a global pretty-printer in verbose mode
PR python/18066 argument "word" seems broken in Command.complete (text, word)
PR pascal/17815 Fix pascal behavior for class fields with testcase
PR python/18285 ptype expr-with-xmethod -> SEGV
The GDB 7.9 Release
Todo:
Done:
[Andreas Arnez] PR corefiles/17808 (7.9 regression: internal-error: i386_supply_gregset: Assertion `len == tdep->sizeof_gregset' failed.)
- [Stan] two agent expression nits (one line each)
PR gdb/17855 (clear_symtab_users doesn't call observer_notify_new_objfile (NULL) early enough)
PR gdb/17890 (gdb needs to punt when it sees a dwarf line table version it doesn't understand)
PR gdb/17525 (target-async: breakpoint commands not executed when program run from -x script)
PR cli/17828 ([7.8 regression] -batch -ex r breaks terminal)
PR symtab/16405 (backtrace takes GBs and minutes with dwz -m)
PR gdb/17856 (ada-lang.c resaves in cache symbol it just found in cache)
PR gdb/17854 (Nothing sets pspace_data->sym_cache)
patch mail (compile: Filter out -fpreprocessed)
PR cli/17716 ([7.7 regression] Backtrace cannot be stopped by 'q' or CTRL-C)
patch series mail (Fix racy FAILs of sigall-reverse.exp (and more))
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